Article: On `The Road' of realism with Oprah

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Oprah Winfrey's book club picks tend to be met with a flurry of fanfare and technology: Book jacket stickers appear overnight; publishers go into instant mega-printings; booksellers raze their displays to make room for the new new thing. Whether her choice is mainstream (Sidney Poitier), classic (William Faulkner), or even publicly retracted (James Frey), the fact is that Oprah's mighty reach guarantees the book a position on the bestseller list - sometimes for years.

A lot of additional fuss has been made this week over Oprah's selection of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 2006 novel, "The Road," as though the queen of feel-good affirmations had just gotten in bed with ...

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