The Road

I just finished reading The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Wow.

Set in a world as spare and grey as imagination can bear, McCarthy somehow manages to illuminate the ashes of that post-apocalyptic ruin with the beleaguered flickering of his characters' still-human hearts.

This story, written by my British college Literature professors' favorite American author, reveals the beauty that can dwell within even the most horrible ugliness. It's one of those books you sit with for a long time afterwords, and I'm still sitting.

Have any of you read it? What did you think?