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The Times' 20 best modern novels
16. 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, McCarthy's 'The Road' is a blistering post-apocalyptic journey undertook by a father and son heading towards the coast, fending off bandits, starvation and the dream that things may get better after life's illumination begins to dim.
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