The road

The apocalypse has happened. The world is devastated, covered in ashes and corpses. Among the survivors, a father and son wander along a road, pushing a shopping cart filled with miscellaneous objects, supposed to help them on their journey. Under the Rain, snow and cold, they advance towards the southern coasts, fear in their hearts belly: hordes of savage cannibals terrorize what remains of humanity. Will they survive their journey? After "The Brodeck Report", Manu Larcenet once again adapts a major work of literature. Crowned with the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, "The Road" has enjoyed a great success and was adapted for the cinema in 2009 with Vigo Mortensen in the role main. With this album, Manu Larcenet succeeds in an adaptation of absolute originality. and yet with total fidelity. By placing his line under the words of the novelist, by illustrating the silences of the story, the artist has appropriated the dark and fascinating universe of Cormac McCarthy's novel. From a cult novel he has made an album of striking beauty, at once powerful and poignant. Undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of modern comics. Cormac McCarthy has written several landmark novels including "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men", also adapted by the Coen brothers for the cinema. His work is mainly available from L'Olivier (and Points) editions, associated to Dargaud on this project. The writer died on June 13, 2023. His novel, published by Éditions de l'Olivier and by Points for the French version pocket, has sold nearly 800,000 copies.