The Traveler

At fifty-six Paul Justin must close his bookstore which he has managed for over fifteen years at a major shopping center in Long Island New York. B. Dalton moved in and his sales plummeted. He soon finds a job as a sales rep with a publishing/remainder company and his travels for the company expose him to new ways of looking at himself. He is as the title suggests a man growing up finding various roads and wrong people until he finds Susan and a 'right road-for which there is always a series of prices.</p><P>An incident involving a rare book which Paul finds in a thrift shop takes on meaning for him because he is undecided as to whether to return it to its rightful owner-The British Museum. There are accounts about bookselling and the remainder business but the novel is essentially a modern love story.</P>