PAUL THEROUX
Friday, October 16 at 7 p.m. at Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 Fourth Avenue

Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. We are delighted to help welcome back one of the superb novelists and literary travel narrative writers of our time, Paul Theroux. He has been here for works of fiction and works of travel. Occasioning this evening is the recent release of marvelous new travel account, Ghost Train to the Evening Star (Houghton Mifflin). "Acclaimed travel writer and novelist Theroux hasn't lost his affection for trains, but his view of the scenery outside has darkened in his latest odyssey. Reprising the itinerary of his 1973 The Great Railway Bazaar, (with a detour around Iran and Afghanistan into the Central Asian republics), Theroux takes a contrarian stance toward the transformation of Asia over the intervening decades ... The book is often an elegy for fixity in a globalizing age when everyone is a traveler anxious to get to America and 'the world is deteriorating and shrinking to a ball of bungled desolation' ... Readers will find his usual wonderfully evocative landscapes and piquant character sketches ... No matter where his journey takes him, Theroux always sends back dazzling post cards." – Publishers Weekly. Free admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis (no tickets). The Seattle Public Central Library is located at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). Limited parking in the Central Library garage will be available for a $5 special event rate. For more attention, please call (206) 386-4636, or Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, and/or see www.spl.org.

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