Books
July, 1988
There's something about a train trip that Paul Theroux finds irresistible. Maybe it's just the opportunity to write another book. His latest, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China (Putnam's), finds him joining a group of tourists with varying degrees of cultural sensitivity (some responses to the limestone hills at Yangshuo: "What a place for a condo!" and "They should call that one Dolly Parton Hill"). Theroux and his gaggle of copilgrims are bombarded by the vast...
