The Road

灰色的雪寂然落在荒芜、寒冷、黑暗的冬日，一对父子穿越地狱般的废墟，往南方海岸走去，寻找温暖、适人的可能地方。那是恶霸横行、甚至吃人维生的恐怖世界，男孩的母亲选择自杀，她不愿生命将以被强暴或谋杀告终。选择生存真的是最好的吗？人性在地狱里还剩下多少？还有什么值得活下去的理由？这是一条没有终点的路，所有事物逐渐凋零、死亡，父子俩唯一拥有的，只有对彼此的爱。McCarthy营造了垂死的冷酷现实，一个没有“然后呢？”的故事。“《路》揭开了隐藏在悲伤和恐惧之下的黑色河床，灾难从未如此真实过，麦卡锡仿佛是这个即将消失于世界的最后幸存者，他把未来发生的那个时刻提早展现给我们看。” ——《TIME》 自出版以来，不但入选美国华盛顿邮报、洛杉矶时报、时代杂志等十数家媒体推荐为年度好书，入围国家书评人奖，更摘下普立兹奖桂冠。某日的夜半一点十七分，核子大战让整个世界由国家建立的秩序毁于一旦，人们仰赖的国家与组织瞬间湮灭，不仅如此，自然在核弹爆炸后的末日，灰蒙蒙的天空无法滋养任何的植物，也无法供养任何幸存的人类。在这场末日浩劫中，一对父子活了下来，他们仅剩了一只手枪与仅有的一发子弹，父亲告诫儿子不能轻易使用子弹，如果遇到了危险就用仅存的一发子弹自杀，当时他们的母亲却利用这最后一发子弹自尽。他们带着火种希望能从新开始生活，他们面对着未知的生计与人性的邪恶面，却抱持着光明乐观的态度，直到他们遇到了一个被遗弃的婴儿，生命开始有了延续。作者Cormac McCarthy甫以此书获得今年年度普立兹奖最佳小说奖，评审认为这本小说是他最平易近人也最优秀的作品。得奖之前这本书才获得「欧普拉读书俱乐部」青睐获得选书，让该书作者Cormac McCarthy登上了生涯创作的最高峰。 McCarthy自一九六○年代创作迄今，共发表十部长篇小说；在台湾最具知名度的作品，或属曾改编成电影《爱在奔驰》的《All the Pretty Horses》。获奖的○六年最新创作《The Road 》，讲一场超级浩劫后，文明崩毁，人类生活几乎退回弱肉强食、互为仇敌的原始状态。一对父子带着购物推车在美国徒步行走，希望到南方避冬；作父亲的在生命最困顿的时刻，依然不放弃教导孩子关乎美与善的信念…　　这位七十三岁的文坛前辈在 《The Road》一书中，以一对父子为故事主轴，徐徐开展一路延续，将细腻的写作技巧展露无遗，漂亮地戴上桂冠。此描绘天灾、人祸共同酿造的末世景观作为「后911」的时代寓言。Book DescriptionNATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington PostThe searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.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. The 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.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It 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. Awesome in the totality of its vision, 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. Amazon.comBest known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 --Daphne DurhamGuest Reviewer: Dennis LehaneDennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his series about private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, wowed readers with the intense and gut-wrenching Mystic River, blew fans all away with the mind-bending Shutter Island, and switches gears with Coronado, his new collection of gritty short stories (and one play). Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthy's previous work. McCarthy's Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness; the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novel's closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his father's (and McCarthy's) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things: faith. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Dennis LehaneMore about the AuthorCormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He attended the University of Tennessee in the early 1950s, and joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years, two of them stationed in Alaska. McCarthy then returned to the university, where he published in the student literary magazine and won the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. McCarthy next went to Chicago, where he worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. The Orchard Keeper was published by Random House in 1965; McCarthy's editor there was Albert Erskine, William Faulkner's long-time editor. Before publication, McCarthy received a traveling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which he used to travel to Ireland. In 1966 he also received the Rockefeller Foundation Grant, with which he continued to tour Europe, settling on the island of Ibiza. Here, McCarthy completed revisions of his next novel, Outer Dark.In 1967, McCarthy returned to the United States, moving to Tennessee. Outer Dark was published by Random House in 1968, and McCarthy received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing in 1969. His next novel, Child of God, was published in 1973. From 1974 to 1975, McCarthy worked on the screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in 1977. A revised version of the screenplay was later published by Ecco Press.In the late 1970s, McCarthy moved to Texas, and in 1979 published his fourth novel, Suttree, a book that had occupied his writing life on and off for twenty years. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, and published his fifth novel, Blood Meridian, in 1985. After the retirement of Albert Erskine, McCarthy moved from Random House to Alfred A. Knopf. All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Trilogy, was published by Knopf in 1992. It won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was later turned into a feature film. The Stonemason, a play that McCarthy had written in the mid-1970s and subsequently revised, was published by Ecco Press in 1994. Soon thereafter, Knopf released the second volume of The Border Trilogy, The Crossing; the third volume, Cities of the Plain, was published in 1998. McCarthy's next novel, No Country for Old Men was published in 2005. This was followed in 2006 by a novel in dramatic form, The Sunset Limited, originally performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago and published in paperback by Vintage Books. McCarthy's most recent novel, The Road, was also published by Knopf in 2006. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.6 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.4

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