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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Cormac McCarthy’s fiction has always possessed an apocalyptic edginess—so who can be surprised that he finally wrote a novel about end times? Or that he seems so much at home in the bleak and ominous landscapes of a dying planet Earth? His post-Armageddon setting for The Road, from one perspective, is merely an extension of the violent, inhospitable bor…

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