Traveling to 'Road's' End

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." These are the words that are uttered from the broken spirits of a father to his son, as they wander aimlessly down the road, to a future that is unknown.

"The Road," is the tenth and best novel to be released by Pulitzer Prize winning Author Cormac McCarthy.

The story follows a father and son as they travel through a post-apocalyptic North America that has been destroyed by an unnamed cataclysm, that left the the world covered in ash.

After staying in the northern territory for some time, the father of the boy decides to move south towards the warmer temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico.

On the road the father and son are mostly alone until they inevitably run into other survivors who are also wandering the road.

Scenes of violence become quite common throughout the novel and during these moments, McCarthy's brilliant writing style is shown in full force, bludgeoning readers in the face with depictions of chaos and turmoil.

The post-apocalyptic world that is described by McCarthy with such great detail gives chills to the avid reader.

McCarthy is also well known for his novel, "No Country for Old Men," however "The Road," establishes him as one of the greatest authors of our time, showing that we must perservere in the face of inevitable death, rather than give up at the sight of failure.