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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's The Road
    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's The Road
    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's The Road
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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's The Road

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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535821148
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      A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's The Road - Gale

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      The Road

      CORMAC McCARTHY

      2006

      INTRODUCTION

      Cormac McCarthy's The Road, published in 2006, is a work of dystopian fiction about a man and his son struggling for survival in a postapocalyptic world. An unnamed catastrophe has wiped out almost all life on earth. Most of the few humans who remain have given up any notion of moral decency and have become cannibals who travel in packs hunting for people to enslave, murder, and eat. The man's overwhelming love for his son and his desire to protect him are

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