Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winner
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Summary
A father and his young son walk south through a scorched, ash-covered America in the wake of an unnamed catastrophe, scavenging for food and evading the desperate. McCarthy strips his prose of conventional punctuation and ornament, producing a stark biblical cadence that fuses survival narrative with parable. The novel has become a touchstone of contemporary post-apocalyptic literature.
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Historical Context & Significance
A rare win for "post-apocalyptic" fiction; the book's sparse, punctuation-free prose became instantly iconic and was a selection for Oprah's Book Club.