Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each …

Sep 26, 2006 · Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them. He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted …

He thought the road would be so bad that no one would be on it but he was wrong. They camped almost in the road itself and built a great fire, dragging dead limbs out of the snow and piling them on the …

The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1 When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child 2 sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more …

Excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road': A father and son's post-apocalyptic journey. Survival, hope, and human connection explored.

With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless.

In the excerpt below, from the beginning of the novel, the father and son journey down the road to an abandoned gas station and eventually spy a ruined city in the distance.

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you …

The Road (Excerpt) lyrics by Cormac McCarthy. When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the …

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