The Road.

CORMAC MCCARTHY,.

Item Number: 142407

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition, second printing of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on a laid in bookplate. Also, signed by actor Viggo Mortensen (who starred as the Man on the film) on the half-title page and by jacket designer Chip Kidd twice; on the front panel and on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic world in a novel of “stunning, savage beauty… written with stripped-down urgency and fueled by the force of a universal nightmare. This is an exquisitely bleak incantation—pure poetic brimstone” (New York Times). “The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book” (Time). The Road earned McCarthy the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became the basis for the 2009 film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.