Cormac McCarthy's the Road

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Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011 - Apocalypse in literature - 149 pages
Cormac McCarthy's jarring, dystopic vision of a father and son's fraught journey to an unknown destination earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. McCarthy peoples his bleak landscapes with individuals forced to renegotiate their own moral borders. The sparsity of the author's style creates a lyric tension with the bleak imagery and graphic realities that are part of this postapocalyptic world. In this new volume, critical excerpts explore this contemporary classic, and features include an annotated bibliography, an index, a list of characters from the work, and extensive summary and analysis, making this entry in the Bloom's Guides series a valuable addition.

About the author (2011)

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.

Bibliographic information

TitleCormac McCarthy's the Road
Bloom's Guides
EditorSterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Editionannotated
PublisherBloom's Literary Criticism, 2011
ISBN1438137443, 9781438137445
Length149 pages
  
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