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McCarthy strips the post-apocalyptic novel to an elemental moral fable.
2007 selection · Literary fiction
The Road
A father and son cross an ash-covered America after an unnamed catastrophe. Their bond and code of goodness are tested by starvation, exposure, and violence.
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You want spare, devastating prose and a profound parent-child story.
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