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The Road by McCarthy, Cormac is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Amazon.com Review Best known for his The Road . Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked --Daphne Durham Guest Reviewer: Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane, master of the hard-boiled thriller, generated a cult following with his Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road , in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and that's the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (47 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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