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The basis for the major motion picture 5 Flights Up starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman. New York City is on high alerta 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 dachshundwhose back legs are suddenly paralyzedto 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 dachshunds life hangs in the balance, the bidding war over their apartment becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair. Told in shifting points of viewAlexs, Ruths, and the little dogsHeroic Measures is a moving, deft novel about urban anxiety and the love that deepens over years.
Heroic Measures: A Novel | 
