标题: 《THE ROAD 》作者： - McCarthy_ Cormac【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-6-6 07:37 标题: 《THE ROAD 》作者： - McCarthy_ Cormac【EPUB】 THE ROAD THE ROAD H E R O A D THE ROAD By McCarthy, Cormac ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK 2006 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOKPUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright ?? 2006 by M-71, Ltd. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto. Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarksof Random House, Inc. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual personsliving or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCarthy, Cormac, [date] The road / by Cormac McCarthy.—1st ed. p. cm. isbn 0-307-26543-9 1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Voyages and travels—United States—Fiction. 3. Regression (Civilization)—Fiction. 4. Survival skills—Fiction. I. Title. ps3563-C337r63 2006 813′.54—dc22 2006023629 Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition This book is dedicated to JOHN FRANCIS MCCARTHY THE ROAD 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 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 precious breath. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he’d wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Deep stone flues where the water dripped and