The Road by McCarthy, Cormac - 2006

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0307265439 . Pulitzer Prize winner. This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. This copy has the First State dust jacket with $24.00 price the front flap and 10/2006 on the bottom rear flap. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. A novel of dystopian fiction, considered by some to be one of the best novels written in the last twenty-five years. "McCarthy is known for his sparse use of punctuation, even replacing most commas with "and" (a polysyndeton). He told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that he prefers "simple declarative sentences" and that he uses capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, a colon for setting off a list, but never semicolons. He does not use quotation marks for dialogue and believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks". Erik Hage notes that McCarthy's dialogue also often lacks attribution, but that "[s]omehow...the reader remains oriented as to who is speaking". His attitude to punctuation dates to some editing work he did for a professor of English while he was enrolled at the University of Tennessee, when he stripped out much of the punctuation in the book being edited, which pleased the professor. McCarthy also edited fellow Santa Fe Institute Fellow W. Brian Arthur's influential article "Increasing Returns and the New World of Business", " .