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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.
The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. [ 1 ]
The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The book appears on numerous university reading lists and is still regularly commented upon at academic conferences and in other books on literature. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Colin Burrow wrote in 2013 that he regarded it as one of "the three most inspiring works of literary criticism written in the twentieth century" together with Erich Auerbach 's ...
The End of the Road displays "aesthetic resistance to the philosophical realism it desires results in a state of narrative, logical, affective, and ethical exhaustion at the end of the book". [103] The narrative conflict echoes an ethical conflict between the characters' value systems that Joe insists is inevitable. [104]
The Guardian review said, "Tremain clearly enjoys observing wealthy Londoners, their vapidity, their selfishness, through Lev's eyes - and also more cheerfully enjoys describing the busy workings of a kitchen in a high-end restaurant. She recounts in succulent detail several of the meals Lev produces as he begins to hone his own culinary skills.
The Road is a 1961 English-language novel by Mulk Raj Anand. [1] The main character Bhikhu bears many similarities to the character Bakha in Anand's earlier novel Untouchable . [ 2 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Road to Paris is a 2006 children's fiction chapter book by ... Synopsis. Paris is a nine-year old ...