Title: The Road
Title Record # 263611
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Date: 2006-09-26
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Date: 2006-09-26
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007.
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Quill Awards: General Fiction 2007.
Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
Synopsis: In this post-apocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. It is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.--From publisher description.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| Win | 2007 Quill | General Fiction |
| 7 | 2007 Locus | Best SF Novel |
| 1 (as La carretera) | 2008 Premio Ignotus | Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel |
| Nomination (as Die Straße) | 2008 Kurd Lasswitz Prize | Bestes ausländisches Werk |
| Nomination (as La route) | 2009 Imaginaire | Roman étranger |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| The Road | 2006-00-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 0-330-44753-X | £16.99?£: UK pound |
241 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |  |
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| The Road | 2006-09-26 | Cormac McCarthy | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-307-26543-9 | $24.00?$: US dollar |
241 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |
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| The Road | 2006-10-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Alfred A. Knopf / SFBC | 1216976 | 241 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
| The Road | 2007-00-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books (Vintage International) | 978-0-307-27792-3 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
287 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | John Gall | |
| The Road | 2007-00-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books (Vintage International) | 978-0-307-38645-8 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
287 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |
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| The Road | 2007-03-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Alfred A. Knopf | 978-0-307-26745-0 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |
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| Die Straße | 2007-03-16 | Cormac McCarthy | Rowohlt | 978-3-498-04507-4 | €19.90?€: Euro |
252 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2007-03-28 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | 978-0-307-38789-9 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
287 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2007-03-28 | Cormac McCarthy | Perfection Learning | 978-1-60686-219-3 | $26.25?$: US dollar |
287 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2007-03-28 | Cormac McCarthy | Turtleback Books | 978-1-4178-0743-7 | $28.10?$: US dollar |
304 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2007-05-04 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 978-0-330-44862-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |||
| The Road | 2007-06-01 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 978-0-330-44754-6 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
307 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | |
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| La carretera | 2007-07-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Mondadori España (Literatura Mondadori #338) | 978-84-397-2077-5 | 210 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
| De weg | 2007-11-30 | Cormac McCarthy | De Arbeiderspers | 978-90-295-6438-0 | €19.95?€: Euro |
176 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| La route | 2008-01-03 | Cormac McCarthy | Editions de l'Olivier | 978-2-87929-591-6 | €21.00?€: Euro |
244 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| Die Straße | 2008-04-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Rowohlt Taschenbuch (rororo #24600) | 978-3-499-24600-5 | €8.95?€: Euro |
253 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
| The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008) | 2008-10-14 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | 978-0-307-45529-1 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
304 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2008-11-15 | Cormac McCarthy | Pan Books | 978-0-330-46948-7 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
310 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2008-11-18 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | 978-0-307-47212-0 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
304 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2009-11-06 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 978-0-330-50901-5 | £20.00?£: UK pound |
308 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
| The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) | 2009-11-24 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | 978-0-307-47631-9 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
304 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2009-12-14 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 978-0-330-46846-6 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
320 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| The Road | 2010-01-01 | Cormac McCarthy | Picador | 978-0-330-51300-5 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
256 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| Die Straße | 2010-10-00 | Cormac McCarthy | Rowohlt Taschenbuch (rororo #24600) | 978-3-499-24600-5 | €8.95?€: Euro |
253 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |
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| Soulmates | 2019-11-23 | uncredited | Süddeutsche Zeitung (Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition) | 978-3-86497-486-1 | €98.00?€: Euro |
267+ 209+ 243+ 287+ 413+ 214+ 651+ 270+ 185+ 189 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | ||
| The Road | date unknown | Cormac McCarthy | Pan Books | 978-0-330-46948-7 | 307 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | |
Reviews
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2006) in Locus, #551 December 2006
- Review by Elizabeth Hand (2007) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2007 , reprinted in:
- [German] Pandora, Fall 2007 (2007)
- Review by Victoria Hoyle and Paul Kincaid (2007) in Strange Horizons, 26 March 2007
- Review by Michael Marano (2007) in Dead Reckonings, Spring 2007
- Review [French] by Norbert Spehner (2008) in Solaris, #167
- Review [Dutch] by Jos Lexmond (2008) in Holland-SF 2008, #3
- Review by Norman Spinrad (2011) in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2011
- Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
- Review
[Spanish]
by
Mikel Peregrina Castaños?Mikel Peregrina Castanos(2016) in Revista Hélice, junio 2016
- Review by David Steffen (2019) in Diabolical Plots, July 2019
- Review [German] by Jens Dirksen (2020) in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 8. Mai 2020 , reprinted in:
- [German] Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 8. Mai 2020 (2020)