Should die-hard fans of a genre (in this case science fiction) be honored or annoyed when an interloper wanders onto their creative territory? The title of McCarthy’s book indicates the path its father-and-son protagonists follow, but it might also symbolize the author’s journey from revered offshoot of the Melville-Hemingway-Faulkner axis to de facto practitioner of end-of-the-world lit.
Chosen for both the Pulitzer Prize and coverage on “Oprah,” Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel “The Road” regularly appears in debates over genre carpetbagging.
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