The Road - Film Tie-In × Aucun prix Meilleur prix près de chez moi Cormac mccarthy 0 avis clients Donnez votre avis 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 Ce produit The Road - Film Tie-In autour de chez moi Loading Fiche Produit The Road - Film Tie-In Nombre de pages 305 ISBN 0330469487 Editeur Macmillan Publishers Ltd Date de publication 2008-11 Description 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 Format Broché Auteur Cormac McCarthy 0 avis clients sur The Road - Film Tie-In Donnez votre avis Tous les produits du rayon Librairie & presse BagagerieCoffrets cadeauxDVD & Blu-RayLibrairie & presseBDLibrairieLibrairie enfantPresseLoisirs créatifsMusiquePapèterie & fournitures de bureauSports Ces produits pourraient vous intéresser N/C Astérix t.29 : la rose et le glaive goscinny, rene uderzo, albert, bande dessinee Voir le détail N/C Ign - géorando liberté france - dvd de préparation de randonnées Voir le détail N/C Disney violetta - v-journal intime lumineux la boite Voir le détail N/C Histoire-géographie , 5ème , livre de l'élève (édition 2010) collectif, grand format Voir le détail N/C Guide officiel pour pro evolution soccer 5 Voir le détail N/C Lili veut être une star Voir le détail N/C Dead zone Voir le détail N/C Télé 2 semaines Voir le détail N/C Bambi Voir le détail N/C Keepsake Voir le détail N/C Dreamfall : the longest journey Voir le détail N/C Nouveau dictionnaire arabe-français et français-arabe Voir le détail N/C Magazine Voir le détail N/C Team deutsch 1 cahier d'exercices allemand 1e annee ursula esterl elke korner ag Voir le détail 6,91 € E.l. james fifty shades , tome 3, cinquante nuances plus claires le livre Voir le détail 22,08 € Lagercrantz,david millénium 4 , ce qui ne me tue pas, tome 4 le roman Voir le détail N/C Poka et mine au fond du jardin Voir le détail N/C La conjugaison pour tous les tableaux de conjugaison, la grammaire du verbe, liste alphabétique des verbes, tous les verbes de la langue française, les tableaux types, les règles d'accord, les règles d'emploi Voir le détail N/C Les transports Voir le détail N/C Escapade en europe Voir le détail N/C Apprendre l'alphabet Voir le détail N/C Astérix t.29 : la rose et le glaive goscinny, rene uderzo, albert, bande dessinee Voir le détail N/C Ign - géorando liberté france - dvd de préparation de randonnées Voir le détail N/C Disney violetta - v-journal intime lumineux la boite Voir le détail N/C Histoire-géographie , 5ème , livre de l'élève (édition 2010) collectif, grand format Voir le détail N/C Guide officiel pour pro evolution soccer 5 Voir le détail N/C Lili veut être une star Voir le détail N/C Dead zone Voir le détail N/C Télé 2 semaines Voir le détail N/C Bambi Voir le détail N/C Keepsake Voir le détail N/C Dreamfall : the longest journey Voir le détail N/C Nouveau dictionnaire arabe-français et français-arabe Voir le détail N/C Magazine Voir le détail N/C Team deutsch 1 cahier d'exercices allemand 1e annee ursula esterl elke korner ag Voir le détail 6,91 € E.l. james fifty shades , tome 3, cinquante nuances plus claires le livre Voir le détail 22,08 € Lagercrantz,david millénium 4 , ce qui ne me tue pas, tome 4 le roman Voir le détail N/C Poka et mine au fond du jardin Voir le détail N/C La conjugaison pour tous les tableaux de conjugaison, la grammaire du verbe, liste alphabétique des verbes, tous les verbes de la langue française, les tableaux types, les règles d'accord, les règles d'emploi Voir le détail N/C Les transports Voir le détail N/C Escapade en europe Voir le détail N/C Apprendre l'alphabet Voir le détail