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Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy

Deviate

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Is There Any Ending in a Brother Conflict Novel?

The book is about two brothers, one who wants to kill his brother because he feels his brother is trying to destroy him. It's exacerbated by the fact that when Cal is away, as you say, he doesn't come all the way back. I knew that there would be a confrontation at the end, but I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out. You sit down every morning thinking, now what? Where am I going with this? And then it kind of catches fire.

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