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MCCARTHY CORMAC THE ROAD

The graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic
classic  The Road   approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist
Manu Larcenet. Now an Eisner Award winner and named a "must-read graphic novel" by Amazon.   
"Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece. "
(Kirkus)    The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact
in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished  and some
survivors are left to raise others for meat  The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and
most prescient novels.   Dedicated to his son  John Francis McCarthy  McCarthy’s The Road is
one of his most personal novels. Ranked 17th on The Guardian ’s 100 Best Novels of the 21st
century  it was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature  and the James Tait Black
Memorial Award  the Believer Award  and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle
Award.   This first official graphic novel adaptation of McCarthy’s work is illustrated by
acclaimed French cartoonist Manu Larcenet  who ably transforms the world depicted by McCarthy’s
spare and brutal prose into stark ink drawings that add an additional layer to this haunting
tale of family love and human perseverance.   Cormac McCarthy personally approved the making of
this book before his death  and the adaptation bears the approval of the McCarthy estate. Among
other accolades 

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