The road

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The work The road represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in North Madison County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The road

Statement of responsibility

Cormac McCarthy

Creator

• trueMcCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

Subject

• Voyages and travels -- Fiction
• trueApocalyptic fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueCannibalism
• trueCatastrophism
• trueDisasters
• trueEthics
• trueFamilial love
• Father-son relationship -- Fiction
• trueFathers and sons
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• trueHunger
• trueLiterary fiction
• trueNear future
• truePersonal conduct
• truePost-apocalypse
• Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
• Robinsonades
• Robinsonades
• trueSurvival (after nuclear warfare)
• Survival -- Fiction
• Survival skills -- Fiction
• trueUnited States
• United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction
• United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction
• Voyages and travels -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueLiterary fiction
• Robinsonades
• trueApocalyptic fiction
• trueBooks to movies

Language

eng

Summary

A nameless man and his young son wander through a decimated landscape, searching for means of survival and a reason for hope as barbaric hordes of people roam the streets and ash falls from the sky

Tone

• trueAtmospheric
• trueHaunting
• trueBleak
• trueMenacing

Writing style

• trueLyrical
• trueStylistically complex

Character

• trueFlawed
• trueSympathetic

Award

• ALA Notable Book, 2007.
• Booklist Editors' Choice, 2006.
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, 2006.
• Library Journal Best Books, 2006.
• New York Times Notable Book, 2006
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007.
• YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.

Cataloging source

DLC

Citation source

• Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007
• Wilson's Fiction, October 2010
• Pulitzer Prize, January 2007
• Library Journal Starred, September 2006
• Booklist starred, August 2006
• Pub Weekly, July 2006
• Kirkus Starred, July 2006
• New York Times, October 2006
• Kliatt Starred, July 2007
• Wilson's Senior High School
• Wilson's Fiction
• Pulitzer Prize

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Adult
• Adult

Intended audience source

Follett Library Resources

LC call number

PS3563.C337

LC item number

R63 2006

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult