Cormac McCarthy deserves his Pulitzer

The same day I finish reading Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, The Road, just happened to be the same day that it was announced he'd won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year. I read the book in two days and was very moved by it. As the father of two young boys, I was struck deeply by the book's theme of how a father deals with the reality of eventually leaving his child alone in a world that he is worried about (terrified even).