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   The Road's bleak post-apocalyptic setting contains no explanation for the catastrophic event that destroyed civilization, leaving readers to interpret the unnamed disaster throughout the 307-page narrative.

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   Oprah Winfrey selected The Road for her book club in 2007, making it one of only two posthumous selections after the author's death in 2023.

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   McCarthy wrote The Road over approximately three years in the late 1990s, completing the manuscript around 2005 before its publication in September 2006.

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   Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007, making it his first major literary award after decades of writing.

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