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The road

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, [2009], ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
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Genre/Form: Robinsonades
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780307476319 0307476316
OCLC Number: 368020905
Description: 287 p. ; 18 cm.
Responsibility: Cormac McCarthy.

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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.

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