Review: 'The Road' strives, but leads nowhere
In Cormac McCarthy 's post-apocalyptic novel " The Road ," no word is repeated so often and with such steady emphasis as "ash."
The stuff is everywhere. It clogs the air, blocking the sun. It blankets the ground. It infiltrates the lungs of the protagonist we know only as The Man, who is shepherding his young son (The Boy) across a doomed landscape where most of the earth's few survivors are marauding cannibals....
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