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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 a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
Jun 25, 2020 · The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel written by Cormac McCarthy, and chronicles the journey of a father and his young son as they trek across what’s left of the United States, hoping for a better life once they reach the coast.
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Sep 26, 2006 · This is a story of a man and a boy, a father and son, wandering cluelessly in a post-apocalyptic world. They walk on the road pushing the rusty shopping cart filled with stolen food and provisions from abandoned homes and shops whose owners have long died.
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Jan 12, 2011 · The book & film are explicitly stated to be set in the future, after some sort of apocalyptic event. Although the author claims it to be "not science fiction", that only pushes it further into the "fantasy" category; nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/after-the-apocalypse
- TL;DR: We don't know. Word of God: The author, Cormac McCarthy, refuses to reveal what happened: I don't have an opinion. It could be anything – vo...
- It was most likely the result of Supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupting. Scientists believe a volcanic eruption that big would cover...
- As I remember, it was unexplained but had something to do with massive fire(s). The movie somewhat shows this, but the book talks about grey skies,...
- I haven't read the book - just saw the movie. I still feel lucky any time I drink a can of coke now from watching that movie :) I've wondered what...
- It lets the reader/viewer put their own "most terrible event" into the story, as well as doesn't bog the story down with the cause of the disaster....
- When the man and boy are talking to the old man Eli, he mentions that we had the warnings but didn't heed them (or something to that effect). This...
- It is/was a foreign object impact on earth, no doubt. In the movie, the man first becomes aware of something wrong when a flickering orange glow bl...
- sean keven, I can see why you said what you said, especially about that metor called Chicxulub. I searched it up and found this video . In the vide...
- Also mentioned in the book was that the birds had been dead and forgotten for quite some time and that the sea was "no longer sea smelling". I foun...
The Road takes place in a hypothetical post-apocalyptic world, but the disaster leading to civilization’s collapse is never explained in the novel. Members of the environmentalist movement have claimed The Road as a valuable tool in warning about the dangers of pollution and climate change, especially the fact that without plants and animals ...
Sep 28, 2021 · It’s now 15 years since Cormac McCarthy’s terrifying post-apocalyptic odyssey, The Road, first hit shelves. The story of a father and son traversing a fallen US where an unspecified ecological cataclysm has destroyed almost all life on the planet, The Road won McCarthy the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has since been hailed as one of ...
Jul 25, 2022 · Find out more about 'The Road,' author Cormac McCarthy's haunting look at a post-apocalyptic world thrown into chaos, from what he wrote the book on to how Oprah contributed to its success.
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