THE ROAD: Cormac McCarthy Folio Society

THE ROAD
 
Cormac McCarthy
 
Folio Society
 
First Edition 2024
 
Devastating and deeply human, Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road follows a father and son walking through a post-apocalyptic America, searching for safety and something like hope. Illustrated by Gérard DuBois, this Folio book features a design as haunting as the story itself.

Winner of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize at the V&A Illustration Awards 2022.
 
Illustrated By Gérard DuBois
Afterword by Michael Chabon
 
A man and a boy push a cart piled with their worldly possessions through the scorched ruins of post-apocalyptic America. Emaciated, filthy and exhausted, the pair makes painfully slow but determined progress along the road that will ultimately lead to the sea and the hope of salvation. One of the most requested books in Folio reader surveys, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a beautiful, harrowing and mesmerising account of the most horrific of scenarios. It earned McCarthy the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film.

This much-anticipated Folio book includes author Michael Chabon’s illuminating review-essay, first published in the New York Review of Books, as well as the artwork of award-winning artist Gérard DuBois, who captures the beauty and brutality of McCarthy’s vision in breathtaking colour illustrations.