Name: The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
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Author: Manu Larcenet
ISBN: 9781419776779

portada The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Illustrated by

Manu Larcenet

Publisher

Abrams Comicarts

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781419776779

Synopsis "The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation"

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth's natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy's bleakest and most prescient novels. Dedicated to his son, John Francis McCarthy, McCarthy's The Road is one of his most personal novels. Ranked 17th on The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of the 21st century, it was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the Believer Award, and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This first official graphic novel adaptation of McCarthy's work is illustrated by acclaimed French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, who ably transforms the world depicted by McCarthy's spare and brutal prose into stark ink drawings that add an additional layer to this haunting tale of family love and human perseverance. Cormac McCarthy personally approved the making of this book before his death, and the adaptation bears the approval of the McCarthy estate.

Cormac McCarthy

(Author)

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(Rhode Island, 1933 - 2023 New Mexico) spent much of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first four novels are set. By 1965, he began to attract international critical attention with The Orchard Keeper, for which he won the Faulkner Award.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road and the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses. He is considered one of the four major American novelists of his time. His dense prose is categorized within the Southern Gothic genre for its stylistic complexity and the darkness and violence it presents. His books Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree, have been compared to the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

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Manu Larcenet

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Born on May 6, 1969 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France), after studying Applied Arts, he made his professional debut in 1994 in the pages of Fluide Glacial magazine, where he created various comics. Two years later, the publisher Audie released his first album, which compiled the material appeared in the magazine. Later, he went on to collaborate with the weekly Spirou, creating stories that would be collected in three albums. In 1997, he founded, with Nicolas Lebedel, his own publishing house: Les Rêveurs de Runes, where he self-published his most personal and experimental projects. In 2000, he collaborated with Lewis Trondheim on his famous saga La Mazmorra, illustrating various albums. That same year, he joined the publisher Dargaud, for whose collection Poisson Pilote he produced Los mundos intermedios (2000), Les cosmonautes du futur (2001, script by Trondheim), Le retour a la Terre (2002, script by Jean-Yves Ferri) and La légende de Robin des Bois (2003). The publication of Los combates cotidianos (2003) earned him the Best Album Award at the Angoulême Salon of 2004. That same year, he published in Norma Editorial La carretera and Terapia de grupo.

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