- Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, post-apocalyptic fiction
Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi.
- Graphic violence
- Body horror
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- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Vintage International, PAN MACMILLAN U.K, Random House
- Editions
- 84
- Language
- Polish, cat, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781436100793
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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers.
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