Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · survival

Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A father and his young son walk south through the ash and ruin of a post-apocalyptic America, pushing their few possessions in a shopping cart, scavenging to survive and hiding from roving cannibals, bound for a coast that may hold nothing at all, the man determined only that the boy must carry the fire.

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   The Mountains

   A man and his son set out south through a grey, dead America, walking the road with a pistol, a cart, and almost nothing else.

2. 2
   The Gap

   Through a gap in the mountains and across burned forests and emptied towns, always scavenging, always afraid.

3. 3
   A Burned City

   Past the ruins of a great dead city, hiding from the roving bands who have turned to cannibalism.

4. 4
   The Coast

   At last they reach the sea, grey and cold and lifeless, but the boy is told that he must carry the fire on.