The Road: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Picador Classic Book 76)

First published 2006 as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf a division of Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto

First published in Great Britain 2006 by Picador

First published in paperback 2007 by Picador

This edition first published 2010 by Picador

This electronic edition published 2010 by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RR Basingstoke and Oxford Associated companies throughout the world www.panmacmillan.com

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The right of Cormac McCarthy to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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