The post-apocalyptic story is one we are all familiar with. Some catastrophe has fallen upon humanity, be it environmental, plague, or war, and we follow a story of survival.
A father and son are walking from the north, most likely the eastern seaboard of America, to the south. The father wants to escape the winter and to presumably find a better life for his son.
The world McCarthy created felt a bit further on in this genre, I thought of it as a post-post-apocalypse.
It is a story of survival, against nature and people. Dedication. And determination.
When it looked like the story was going to devolve into a Mad Max kind of thing, it didn't. I found this refreshing.
I tore through the book and very nearly read it in one sitting.
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