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Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Tradition of Apocalypse

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Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Tradition of Apocalypse
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Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel was published 20 years ago. Auden Alsop revisits it and considers the inheritance of assured destruction and how this intersects with parenthood
We all know that the world will end. All of this – everything you can see on and behind the screen on which you are reading this piece, and everything you can't – will be lost. We don't know how, when, or why. A nuclear (mis)fire, the eruption of one volcano or another, asteroid impact. When it happens, the how will not mat

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