You Want Book? I Got Book!

I am participating in this book meme since I have been tagged by Katra.  Here is what I am supposed to do:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

So here's what I got:

    'Easy!' cried Lo, lurching forward, as an accursed truck in front of us, its backside carbuncles pulsating, stopped at a crossing.
    If we did not get to the hotel soon, immediately, miraculously, in the very next block, I felt I would lose all control over the Haze jalopy with its ineffectual wipers and whimsical brakes; but the passers-by I applied to for directions were either strangers themselves or asked with a frown 'Enchanted what?' as if I were a madman; or else the went into such complicated explanations, with geometrical gestures, geographical generalities and strictly local clues (... then bear south after you hit the courthouse ...) that I could not help losing my way in the maze of their well-meaning gibberish.  Lo, whose lovely prismatic entrails had already digested the sweetmeat, was looking forward to a big meal and had begun to fidget.

Can you guess what book this is from?  Surely Katra will know.  Anyway, I have not started it yet since I've had a busy week, but next week is Spring Break and I'll have a lot of time for leisurely reading.  Oh, and I'm not tagging anyone since I think Katra already tagged the one other person I know who uses Vox on a semi-regular basis.