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The Road
CORMAC McCARTHY
2006
INTRODUCTION
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, published in 2006, is a work of dystopian fiction about a man and his son struggling for survival in a postapocalyptic world. An unnamed catastrophe has wiped out almost all life on earth. Most of the few humans who remain have given up any notion of moral decency and have become cannibals who travel in packs hunting for people to enslave, murder, and eat. The man's overwhelming love for his son and his desire to protect him are