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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 several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is ...
Starring Viggo Mortensen as the father, [11] Kodi Smit-McPhee as the boy, Charlize Theron as the wife, [12] and Robert Duvall as the old man. Adapted from McCarthy's 2006 novel. Child of God (2013), co-written and directed by James Franco and premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. [13] Adapted from McCarthy's 1973 novel ...
Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No ...
American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico
2008 Premio Ignotus for The Road 2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist for The Road 2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction , for a career whose writing "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."
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