Alex and Ruth decide they must sell their New York apartment because they can no longer handle the stairs, but their beloved daschund Dorothy suddenly becomes ill, and there is news that a gasoline truck is mysteriously stuck in the Midtown tunnel. New York is plunged into turmoil over speculation about the truck and its driver, and the three characters are thrown into its midst. Strengthened by their love for one another, Alex, Ruth and Dorothy face each new challenge with courage, integrity and aplomb.
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Paul Theroux, now an older "witness to the wobbling world," repeats the train trip he took through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan and Siberia 30 years ago in the Great Railway Bazaar. Theroux has strong opinions about the political and economic changes he sees this time round, but it is the conversations he has with fellow travellers, local residents and writers that make this book so interesting.
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