The Road | 
 agrandir | Auteur: Cormac Mccarthy
Créateur: Cormac Mccarthy
Éditeur: Vintage Books USA
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Évaluation moyenne des clients:  3 commentaires
Classement parmi les ventes: 33
Média: Broché
Pages: 287
Poids (kg): 0.7
Dimension (cm): 7.8 x 4.8 x 1
ISBN: 0307387895
Code Décimal Dewey: 813.54
EAN: 9780307387899
ASIN: 0307387895
Date de publication: Mars 2007
Disponibilité: Expédition sous 1 à 2 jours ouvrés
Expédition: Livraison internationale disponible
Condition: Expedies des Etats-Unis. Tous les livres sont neuves! Livraison est d'environ 10-14 jours ouvrables.
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Best 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 Durham
Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane
 Dennis 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 Lehane
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Un roman original Juin 19, 2008
Jenny Moune (France)
2 sur 4 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
j'ai beaucoup aimé ce livre. J'ai trouvé l'écriture sobre. L'histoire est inattendue, c'est parfois déroutant, toujours émouvant et aussi dérangeant. Je crois que ce livre continue à interpeller ses lecteurs encore longtemps après qu'on l'ait refermé.
I do not like it BUT... Juin 5, 2008
Marie Bernard-Dubois (Paris, france)
4 sur 5 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
Obviously, this novel is the kind of novel that you either hate or love. It is really impressive. As I wrote, I do not like it... BUT it is a master's piece. This "new world" is described in such a way that the reader will certainly think about the lack of communication that every one faces every day.
The English original version seems better than the translated one...
Ce livre fait froid dans le dos Septembre 22, 2007
tumblehome
9 sur 10 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
Ceux qui sont familiers avec l'oeuvre de McCarthy reconnaîtront dès les premières lignes le style particulier de l'auteur, alternant descriptions complexes et dialogues dépouillés. Comme d'habitude, les personnages évoluent dans un environnement glauque et hostile. Ce qui change par rapport aux livres précédents, c'est que cette fois-ci l'action du livre se déroule dans un paysage postapocalyptique, où seulement quelques rescapés survivent tant bien que mal et où il n'y a plus d'espoir. L'absence d'avenir est palpable et oppressant. L'homme a vécu dans l'Amérique d'avant la catastrophe, son fils n'a connu que les paysages froids et poussiéreux où le soleil ne brille jamais. Pour ce dernier, la découverte du goût du Coca est un rare moment de bonheur.
The Road est aussi l'histoire de l'amour d'un père pour son fils, plus fort que tout. Le père est cynique, pour lui ne compte que la survie de son fils et lui. Le caractère du fils illustre que, malgré tout, McCarthy croit en l'homme. La bonté naturelle de l'enfant n'a pas encore été détruit par l'epérience de la vie.
Ce livre est un avertissement. Le monde court à la catastrophe et le livre de McCarthy est un scénario plausible de ce qui pourrait nous attendre.
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