This was a very creepy yet beautiful book. Cormac McCarthy is one of those writers who has the ability to constantly craft beautiful sentences and this book is rife with them.

It's a relatively quick read, especially for the man who wrote [book:Suttree], but it is by no means simple. It chronicles some of the travels of a man and his son through a world that has ended and seen the loss of all semblance of human civilization and kindness. It is a portrait of sadness, desperation and love. It is haunting.