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his own prose, built of solid blocks of exegesis and description

There is no obligation for The Road to answer an unanswerable question like theodicy.

Oprah Winfrey, who selected the novel for her remorselessly edifying book club

the idea that the boy may be the last god--an eschatological plot that is a kind of more philosophical version of The Terminator

closing the scene with a rather lovely peroration