‘Though they and we fear it must end in tragedy and failure, we are rooting for them, pulling for them, from the first – and so, we suspect, is the author.’ McCarthy’s writing is immediate and visual, and, like Chabon in his afterword, illustrator Gérard DuBois has plunged deep into the narrative to explore the motivations of the characters in order to create the astonishing artwork for this edition. Chabon discusses The Road as part of the post-apocalyptic sub-genre of science fiction, but ultimately he reads the book as an epic adventure that is driven by the human traits of the protagonists. Published in the New York Review of Books in 2007, Michael Chabon’s review-essay ‘After the Apocalypse’ is a literary study of this important novel, purposely positioned as an afterword due to its r evelations about the plot. Winner of the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Prize and the Book Illustration category at the V&A Illustration Awards 2022. This much-anticipated new collector’s edition includes Folio 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. It earned McCarthy the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film. 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. 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. A man and a boy push a cart piled with their worldly possessions through the scorched ruins of post-apocalyptic America.
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