- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007 · Winner
The Road
The Road
Cormac McCarthy (born 1933)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Road
Picador · United Kingdom · 4 August 2022 · Paperback · 336 pages
The Road
Knopf · United States · 26 September 2006 · Hardcover · 256 pages
The Road
Vintage · United States · 28 March 2007 · Paperback · 304 pages
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Years after a catastrophe has burned cities and forests and buried the land in grey ash, a man and the boy who is his son trudge toward the sea through a cold, dead America. The boy was born after the disaster; his mother chose to die rather than go on. Father and son own almost nothing: the clothes they wear, blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and a revolver with only two bullets. Starvation is always close, and many of the few other survivors are cannibals who stalk the road. The father insists that the two of them are the good guys, carrying the fire, while the boy watches how his father treats the strangers they meet and becomes the moral conscience of their journey.
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About the book
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- Novel
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- Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2006
- Author's age
- 73 when first published
- ISBN
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9780307265432 (Knopf, United States)
9780307387899 (Vintage, United States)
9781035003792 (Picador, United Kingdom)
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