The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is a very dark tale of a father and son traveling through a burnt, post-apocalyptic land. It's purely about survival. The writing is nearly stream-of-consciousness but the stream is from a halting conscious - it does set up frame of mind for the wandering, desperate characters. Even though I was left with a dismal feeling in the pit of my stomach, I thought it was very, very good - perhaps precisely because of the emotion that was evoked within.