The Road cover art

The Road

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 Months Free

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £11.61

Buy Now for £11.61

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.©2006 Cormac McCarthy (P)2006 Recorded Books Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Dystopian Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Scary Thought-Provoking Witty
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
All stars
Most relevant

What made the experience of listening to The Road the most enjoyable?

The story painted a picture of a future so bleak it defines the apocalypse genre... The reader did a great job defining the characters and emotions.

What did you like best about this story?

Great story, short running time and engaging characters.

Have you listened to any of Tom Stechschulte’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No, but I will be looking at his other books

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Pretty much!

So Desolate, So Miserable, But So Good!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyed, but the encounters in the book got a little same same. I cried, so that's always a good indicator of an author who has really pulled me into the book and characters. would recommend.

I cried....

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wow. I thought I was feeling down before starting this book. By the end I want to curl up into the foetus position in bed and cry.
The story is good and it's narrated really well but the events and what happens throughout just make you want to weep.

Want to be utterly depressed? Read this book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
this is a great book, its very hard as a dad to a young boy but it makes me want to hold him close and tell him I love him. the narrator does an amazing job here. its a short listen and in my opinion worth it...

Grim, gripping & heartbreaking

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I found this a amazing It affected me like no other book I have ever read.
From begging to end it held me wanting to no more I found my self worrying and yes fretting day by day about the characters and the end brought me to tears and wonting to no more However I was glad it was at an end as it affected me so deeply and vividly, its still in my head and will be in my memory for a long time to come

Thanks for such a great book

will be in my memory for a long time to come

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews