The Road imagines a father and son journeying through a devastated world devoid of all life – except for a few gangs of increasingly desperate humans
Cormac McCarthy doesn’t tell us the cause of the apocalypse. What did you imagine it might be?
McCarthy told me it was some kind of environmental meltdown. He has an office at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, he loves hanging out there and a lot of his friends are environmental scientists, molecular biologists and physicists, so he’s coming at it from a very scientific point of view. It’s about what would happen if…
