The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Dad lent this to me last time I visited. A deeply moody book - it is also a very crafted book. Written in a diary like style devoid of dates and times (which adds to the sense of despair and lost-ness) largely from the protagonist's perspective with occasional third person omniscient point of view. Names are used only sparingly (if at all). Reads very quickly. It left me in a funk well after having finished - at the same time the style of the narrative and the structure of the novella are so carefully assembled to complement the setting and story - it feels almost a step too many was taken. It feels, oddly, like a full length short story.

I'm curious to see how it stands in a few years; I read it almost a month ago and am still taking time to blog about it ...