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The Connell Short Guide to Cormac McCarthy's The Road Paperback – 10 July 2017
by
David Isaacs
(Author),
Jolyon Connell
(Editor)
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Few, if any, modern novels have inspired as large a volume of critical writing as Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It is a novel about a man and a boy trudging through a wasteland after the fall of civilisation. But McCarthy's extraordinary achievement is to have created out of the bleakness and horror of his subject matter what Stephen Fry calls 'a novel of incomparable beauty'. 'The Road,' says the critic John Cant, 'expresses the paradox that lies at the heart of all serious pessimistic literature: its literary passion defies the very emptiness that it proclaims.'
- Print length52 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherConnell Guides
- Publication date10 July 2017
- Dimensions11 x 0.4 x 17.5 cm
- ISBN-101907776990
- ISBN-13978-1907776991
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What I love about these is that they're small & unintimidating, so they make the potentially intimidating accessible. --Helena Bonham Carter
The Connell Guides are brief, attractive, erudite, and to the point. Bravo! --Sir Tom Stoppard
Completely brilliant. I wish I were young again with these by my side. It's like being in a room with marvellous tutors. You can't really afford to be without them, and they are a joy to read. --Joanna Lumley
The Connell Guides are brief, attractive, erudite, and to the point. Bravo! --Sir Tom Stoppard
Completely brilliant. I wish I were young again with these by my side. It's like being in a room with marvellous tutors. You can't really afford to be without them, and they are a joy to read. --Joanna Lumley
About the Author
David Isaacs studied English at Cambridge. Subsequently, he has worked as an editor both at Short Books and at Connell Guides. He has written five of our Short Guides - to Michael Frayn's Spies, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and forthcoming guide to John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. He is currently doing a PhD at UCL on self-doubt and provisionality in late 20th century / early 21st century literature.
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- Publisher : Connell Guides (10 July 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 52 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1907776990
- ISBN-13 : 978-1907776991
- Dimensions : 11 x 0.4 x 17.5 cm
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2018
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2018Insightful comments on the text. Interesting context to the novel provided. Very useful to the A Level student.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2017This was for my grandson he seems to be.happy with it
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2021Very thin