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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Dystopian · ranked #5 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007

A father and son walk through a dead, ash-grey world; stripped-bare, unbearably tender post-apocalyptic fiction.

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The verdict

Category
Dystopian
First published
2006 · 2000s
Author
Cormac McCarthy
Standing
Essential Read

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