Where the Pavement Ends
John Russell
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 19, 2018)
Excerpt from Where the Pavement EndsThe three whites sat together well forward, and SO they had sat in silence for hours. But at sunrise, as if some spell had been raised by the clang of that great copper gong in the east, they stirred and breathed deep of the salt air and looked at one another with hope in their haggard faces, and then back to ward the land which was now no more than a gray green smudge behind them. Friends, said the eldest, whose temples were bound with a scrap of crimson scarf, Friends - the thing is done.With a gesture like conjuring he produced from the breast of his tattered blouse three cigarettes, fresh and round, and offered them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.