Summer readings: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Summer may seem an odd time to read McCarthy's devastating apocalypse novel, but it certainly brings holiday joys into focus


Adam Vaughan
Saturday 13 August 2011 00.04 BST

Outside was awash with the ever-present sun, the blues and whites of the Greek islands, while I honeymooned with my pregnant wife. Inside my head, Cormac McCarthy was conjuring a father and son crossing a perpetually monochrome North American wasteland filled with ash, hunger and marauding cannibals.