The Road

The Road
First edition hardcover
AuthorCormac McCarthy
LanguageEnglish
GenrePost-apocalyptic fiction
Tragedy[1][2][3][4][5][6]
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
September 26, 2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages287
ISBN0-307-26543-9
OCLC70630525

The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.

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