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Heroic Measures

Heroic Measures

Ciment, Jill

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0307386783
ISBN13: 9780307386786
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.64 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
The basis for the major motion picture 5 Flights Up starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.

New York City is on high alert--a gasoline truck is stuck in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund--whose back legs are suddenly paralyzed--to the animal hospital, using a cutting board as a stretcher. But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the apartment in which they have lived for most of their adult lives. Over the course of forty-eight hours, as the mystery of the missing truck driver terrorizes the city and the dachshund's life hangs in the balance, the bidding war over their apartment becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair. Told in shifting points of view--Alex's, Ruth's, and the little dog's--Heroic Measures is a moving, deft novel about urban anxiety and the love that deepens over years.

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