A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's The Roads

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to the American Novel
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages582-597
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9781405101196
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 30 2012

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Chabon, seeing the novel, as a return to McCarthy's Gothic horror
  • Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a different kind of love story
  • McCarthy's place, in the American literary canon as a writer
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel
  • The Road, fixation within a certain genre
  • The Road, layered with a melancholy desire for the past
  • The Road, unique in its own way, rooted in the McCarthy tradition
  • Walsh calling The Road, as McCarthy's imaginative construction of the South

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