--- product_id: 1710971 title: "The Road (Oprah's Book Club)" price: "₱3086" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1710971-the-road-oprahs-book-club store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Pulitzer Prize Winner Top 100 21st Century Book Post-apocalyptic intensity The Road (Oprah's Book Club) **Price:** ₱3086 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive into the hauntingly beautiful journey everyone’s talking about! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Road (Oprah's Book Club) - **How much does it cost?** ₱3086 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1710971-the-road-oprahs-book-club) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Top-Ranked Bestseller:** Ranked #11 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction, a must-have for your curated bookshelf. - • **Award-Winning Masterpiece:** Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that cements McCarthy’s literary genius. - • **Critically Acclaimed Classic:** Featured in The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and Kirkus’ Best Fiction Book of the Century. - • **Cultural Conversation Starter:** Join the elite circle of readers who’ve experienced this profound meditation on hope and despair. - • **Unforgettable Emotional Journey:** A gripping father-son survival story that explores love and humanity in a devastated world. ## Overview The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and son’s harrowing journey through a devastated America. Celebrated for its profound emotional depth and literary mastery, it’s recognized as one of the 21st century’s most impactful books, blending stark survival with a tender exploration of love and hope amidst despair. ## Description WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle). One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century 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. Review: Great...but depressing - Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is an incredibly well-written book, but it is also one of the most relentlessly depressing things I’ve ever read. There is a haunting beauty to McCarthy’s writing, and the relationship at the center of the story is deeply moving. It’s a book about love, survival, hope, and what it means to hold on to your humanity when nearly everything else has been stripped away. I understand completely why this book has received so much praise. That said, I’d offer one word of caution: if you are someone who is prone to sadness or depression, I would seriously consider waiting to read this until you’re in a good place emotionally. I don’t say that lightly. This book affected my mood far more than I expected it to. It took me about two weeks after finishing it to really come out of the funk it put me in. That doesn’t mean I regret reading it. In fact, the fact that it affected me so deeply probably speaks to just how effective McCarthy’s writing is. The images, atmosphere, and emotions stay with you long after you’ve finished the last page. The Road is a great book. I’m glad I read it. But it’s also a heavy, bleak journey, and I’d recommend knowing what you’re walking into before you start. Great book. Powerful book. Just maybe not the book to pick up when you’re already feeling down. Review: The Road - Good book it's the first pulitzer winning book I've read in a while. Writing style not my favorite as it was very vague in that the characters had no names and exact illnesses not really named. Glad I read it but won't read more from this author ## Features - acclaimed Cormac McCarthy's latest novel The Road - searing postapocalyptic novel ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #426 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #25 in Reference (Books) #61 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 39,263 Reviews | ## Images ![The Road (Oprah's Book Club) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71u2DNDbNLL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great...but depressing *by C***Y on September 12, 2026* Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is an incredibly well-written book, but it is also one of the most relentlessly depressing things I’ve ever read. There is a haunting beauty to McCarthy’s writing, and the relationship at the center of the story is deeply moving. It’s a book about love, survival, hope, and what it means to hold on to your humanity when nearly everything else has been stripped away. I understand completely why this book has received so much praise. That said, I’d offer one word of caution: if you are someone who is prone to sadness or depression, I would seriously consider waiting to read this until you’re in a good place emotionally. I don’t say that lightly. This book affected my mood far more than I expected it to. It took me about two weeks after finishing it to really come out of the funk it put me in. That doesn’t mean I regret reading it. In fact, the fact that it affected me so deeply probably speaks to just how effective McCarthy’s writing is. The images, atmosphere, and emotions stay with you long after you’ve finished the last page. The Road is a great book. I’m glad I read it. But it’s also a heavy, bleak journey, and I’d recommend knowing what you’re walking into before you start. Great book. Powerful book. Just maybe not the book to pick up when you’re already feeling down. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Road *by J***R on September 6, 2026* Good book it's the first pulitzer winning book I've read in a while. Writing style not my favorite as it was very vague in that the characters had no names and exact illnesses not really named. Glad I read it but won't read more from this author ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ perhaps the greatest work of art I've ever encountered *by D***L on August 29, 2010* Art is different from entertainment because art changes you, and this book affected me more deeply than any piece of art I've ever encountered. Not that I think it's perfect -- I see many flaws. But they don't matter. It accomplished its mission. Cormac McCarthy has written the definitive literary depiction of the power of love. Although they were cold, dirty, starving, frightened, I was surprised to find myself at one point envying them, for they were nurtured from within by the power of love. Especially the father, as it's the nature of the parent-child relationship that the parent gives and the child receives. CM is saying, that when all hope is gone, love remains. And he's done it so convincingly that during the days I was reading this book, when I had occasion to throw away some food, I found myself thinking "I wish I could give it to them." In some part of my mind, I felt convinced that these people really existed. That was how completely I entered into their world. Caution: spoilers ahead!! I have never cried so hard at any death in a movie or book. It started with the line: "when he lay down he knew that he could go no further and that this was the place where he would die. The boy sat watching him, his eyes welling. Oh Papa, he said." I'm crying for the loss to the man, who showed so much courage, self-denial, sheer grit, and boundless love. We want to see that kind of all-out effort succeed and be rewarded, but life isn't like that. We know the horror the man must feel in leaving his son alone in that world, with nothing but a half a tin of peaches to sustain him. In his final gesture of love, the man declines the peaches and tells his son to save them for him -- for tomorrow, when he knows he'll be gone. I'm crying for the loss to the skinny, starving boy, who has lost his smart, determined, vigilant and tender father -- the only thing standing between him and a horrific future as a catamite or cannibal's dinner. And I'm crying for the loss to myself of the most inspiring character in the fiction world: a man with the strength to keep going, keep walking, keep searching, when almost all others have given up (like his wife) or given in to their basest instincts (the roadagents). "The Road" left me knowing that love is all that matters, and determined to live my life out of that knowledge. I want to give up living from my mind and start living from my heart. Perhaps I will adopt a child. The story is more powerful than a thousand sermons. Cormac McCarthy strips away all the superfluous stuff that has nothing to do with love. We don't know whether the man preferred to go out for sushi or steak, jazz music or country. Was he a lawyer, salesman or mechanic? None of that is essential to who he is. We don't need him to crack jokes or say profound things. All we know of him is what he does, and that's plenty. We see him putting his son's welfare first, over and over again. When they are hiding from the cannibals, he considers running to draw them away from the boy. That he himself will end up in that basement doesn't even figure in his decision not to do it -- only that he doesn't think it will work. His own pain weighs nothing when compared to his motivation to save the boy. As for those who fault the man for not helping strangers -- I don't agree. Any morsel of food given to strangers is taken from the mouth of his son, or lessens his own chance to stay alive long enough to get his son south. He had to choose and he chose his son. So the story had a deep emotional impact on me. But in addition, it is a story of ideas. How low can man go? What darkness beats in the heart of men, only thinly veiled by our (currently) abundant society? At what point is life no longer worth living? At what point should the strong drive for self-preservation be ignored, if it means committing atrocities on others? And lastly, to what extent am I taking life's current luxuries and comforts for granted? I'm sure many a reader of "The Road" has collapsed into bed after a night of reading and felt immense gratitude for their cozy bedroom, their clean sheets, their fridge and a tasty midnight snack. Things that troubled me about the story: I wanted them to stay longer at the bunker. At least to make full use of those provisions and take the time to fatten up and rest before heading on. They could've hauled a load of groceries off a mile or two and pigged out for a few weeks before coming back for more. The more weight they put on, the less crucial it would be to find fresh provisions when they finally did leave. I wanted to see him make a major effort to find a way to disguise the trap-door to the bunker. It had gone undiscovered for almost ten years, if it was well hidden perhaps it could go undiscovered for at least a few more months. Setting off the flare gun was irresponsible. They wasted a flare and announced their position, perhaps drawing the thief. But those are minor quibbles. After finishing "The Road," I felt profoundly blessed, and cleansed from within from the tears shed. I knew I was in the presence of greatness. Cormac McCarthy has given mankind an immense gift, for which I paid only $7.99. 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