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en-wikipedia-org-7021		The Road - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3073	391	78	The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 90 out of 100, based on thirty-one reviews.[10] Critics have deemed it "heartbreaking", "haunting", and "emotionally shattering".[11][12][13] The Village Voice referred to it as "McCarthy's purest fable yet."[11] In a New York Review of Books article, author Michael Chabon heralded the novel. structures the narrative", Chabon says, "ultimately it is as a lyrical epic of horror that The Road is best understood."[14] Entertainment Weekly in June 2008 named The Road the best book, fiction or non-fiction, of the past 25 years[15] and put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "With its spare prose, McCarthy's post-apocalyptic odyssey from 2006 managed to be both harrowing and heartbreaking."[16] In 2019, the novel was ranked 17th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.[17]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7021.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7021.txt