The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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The Road: Genre 1 key example

Key Examples in The Road

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

The Road—with its iconic portrait of a planet laid to waste—is part of the post-apocalyptic genre. The horrors of this unforgivingly barren world form at least part of the novel’s main premise: the man and the boy must navigate the aftermath of some unnamed, cataclysmic event as they journey southward.