Facts about The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy is narrated entirely in the third person and never reveals the names of its two protagonists, referred to only as the man and the boy.
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McCarthy wrote The Road without conventional punctuation, omitting quotation marks and apostrophes throughout the novel to reinforce its stark, stripped-down narrative.
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Oprah Winfrey selected The Road by Cormac McCarthy for her Book Club, marking one of the rare times she chose a work of such stark, violent content.
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A central theme in The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the relationship between a father and his young son surviving in a ash-covered, post-apocalyptic America.
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Published in 2006, The Road by Cormac McCarthy was adapted into a film of the same name released in 2009, starring Viggo Mortensen.
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Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.