The Road

I've just finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". The journey of a starving father and son struggling through a post armaggedon wasteland makes Nevile Shutes post nuclear story "On the Beach" seem positively jolly. In the end though, their repetitive mind numbing struggle against impossible odds towards an unknown future leaves a spark of optimism about what the love between a father and son can acheive when everything else is stripped away. The most moving book I can remember. Prepare to feel as if you have been clubbed around the head.