Article: 'The Road,' starring Mortensen and Theron, will film in city

Article: On `The Road' of realism with Oprah
The Boston Globe;  March 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ......selection of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 2006 novel, "The Road," as though the queen of feel-go...fictional though it may be, "The Road" may trump "Night" for sheer...notion of grace and longing, "The Road" is a heartsore, riveting account...

Article: A walk on this road familiar, yet terrifyingly new
Winnipeg Free Press;  October 29, 2006 ;     543 words ...The Road By Cormac McCarthy Random House...American master is a long walk on a road that is at once familiar and terrifyingly...through Texas and Mexico. But The Road is the hardest of travelling: no...romance, no destination, no names. "The Road" is actually a network of highways...King's The Stand, ...

Article: 'Road' is deep, telling novel
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 15, 2006 ;     454 words ...THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, 241 pages, $24 The characters...literary creations are again in motion in his new book, "The Road." Here McCarthy presents a "road novel" that Kerouac would not have recognized as he traces...treatise on the sustaining force of familial love, "The Road" is a ...

Article: Post-apocalyptic tale: Has hope tossed in; Crace offsets horrifying conflict with love, a family
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......witness something close to a post-apocalyptic-vision derby. Last fall, Cormac...McCarthy issued his novel The Road ... and pretty much depressed...hazardous journey across a post-apocalyptic America by a couple heading...character-driven than The Road, and takes place in a much...

Article: COMMENTARY: McCarthy paints post-apocalyptic picture
University Wire;  November 14, 2007 ;     429 words ......recent fiction, however, is "The Road." This Pulitzer Prize-winning...gray and barren landscape of a post-apocalyptic America, where nothing moves...of cannibals that stalk the road. They have only a pistol with...no reason to hope for. "The Road" is an exploration of the love...blows of ...

Article: BOOK REVIEW: Oprah pick a long, mournful 'Road'
University Wire;  April 12, 2007 ;     636 words ......has recently picked "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy to join...In spite of this, "The Road" lacks the excessive sentimentality...its elegiac quality, "The Road" would simply be the written...McCarthy's approach to the post-apocalyptic world is more subdued and...and poetic subtlety. "The ...

Article: Make sure you take this 'Road'.(Life)
Cape Times (South Africa);  August 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ......than in his latest novel, The Road (Picador). It's the story of...scorched landscape; the ashes of a post-apocalyptic land where not a thing lives...described a dog walking across a road (in The Crossing, part of The...here in February). But The Road is his pinnacle work, and ...

Article: On the Lost Highway; Cormac McCarthy sends a father and son on the scariest road trip he can imagine. Seat belts fastened?
Newsweek;  October 2, 2006 ;     448 words ......McCarthy's latest novel, The Road, consult the Library of Congress...fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world reduced to cold ashes...here it is in full flower. The Road is the logical culmination...on heartbreaking force. The Road could have been a novella...scrounging for food, ...

Article: BOOK REVIEW: McCarthy's 'The Road' depressing yet worthwhile
University Wire;  April 23, 2007 ;     448 words ......Sliva University Wire 04-23-2007 (UWM Post) (U-WIRE) MILWAUKEE -- Years after...Cormac McCarthy's newest novel, "The Road," which has found new life nearly six...secretive as JD Salinger. On April 16, "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction...Faulkner, Hemingway and Updike. The ...

Article: Will We Get To See The Road This Year?
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  October 16, 2008 ;     180 words ......the no-doubt downer that will be The Road, directed by John Hillcoat and adapted...scared to read, as it's one of those post-apocalyptic tales of wandering bleak landscapes...Eastern Promises. But we digress. The Road had been slated to open in New York and...still being worked on and apparently ...

Article: Greenway Revenue, Traffic At Odds; Fewer on Va. Road Since Tolls Went Up
The Washington Post;  July 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ......1 more to use the 14-mile private toll road. Daily weekday traffic on the Greenway...rush hours, motorists who drive the toll road's entire stretch to the airport save roughly...Huggins-Lawler, a spokeswoman for Toll Road Investors Partnership II, or TRIP II, said...

Article: On the road to ruin
The Independent - London;  July 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......dentist who practised in Chicago, the road was a prison, or better yet a purgatory...eyes. For him, Jack Kerouac's On the Road was the forbidden fruit. Its jazzy...been the Technicolor dream of On the Road, but its end anticipates the post-apocalyptic monochrome of Cormac McCarthy's The ...

Article: Winfrey chooses 'The Road,' by reclusive author McCarthy; Talk-show star says TV interview will take place in the coming weeks
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 30, 2007 ;     460 words ......based TV show that McCarthy's "The Road" was her new book club pick. "Mr. McCarthy...when she called." In selecting "The Road," not only will Winfrey meet with an...uplifting spirit she often favors. "The Road," published last September by Knopf...they wander through a burned and bare, ...

Article: Oprah, fans take McCarthy's 'Road'.(TV & Radio)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 29, 2007 ;     407 words ......hit-maker has chosen Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a bleak, apocalyptic novel by an author...when she called, Bogaards added. The Road, published last September by Knopf...book club selection before because it's post-apocalyptic. (It is) Very unusual for me to select...it's fascinating, Winfrey ...