The Road
novel by McCarthy
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discussed in biography
- In Cormac McCarthy
In the postapocalyptic The Road (2006; film 2009), a father and son struggle to survive after a disaster (left unspecified) that has all but destroyed the United States. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize for the critically acclaimed novel. His next novel, The Passenger, was not released until 2022.…
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film adaptation
- In Charlize Theron
…adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel of the same name. In the dramedy Young Adult (2011), Theron starred as a willfully immature woman who returns to her hometown in pursuit of her high-school sweetheart. She enlivened the screen as the evil queen in the dark fairy-tale adaptation Snow White and…
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