Title: Even better in audio!!
Product review: Do you want to experience a bleak post-apocalyptic world? Listen to Rupert Degas's reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize with this novel describing the passage of father and son down an endless road in a wiped-out environment, scavenging for food to survive where they can. I read the novel first so I knew the story, but couldn't tear myself away from this audio. Degas (in totally different voice to his readings of another contemporary `great', the novels of Haruki Murakami) doesn't get emotionally embroiled...just reads it like it is. As listeners, we can only observe, frightened, hopeful, concerned, occasionally tearful, as father/son stagger on to an ending you know is coming in one way or another. McCarthy's language, spare and powerful, hits home like poetry. Required listening for politicians playing nuclear power games.
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