Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
This is a passionate, affectionate record of adventures and misadventures in the world's hottest metropolis. Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons - a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke - but no longer in pain - he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. "Bangkok Days" is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world. 'Thailand inspires such enthralled romanticism that it also invites great cynicism and it is a feat to acknowledge all its complexities and graces, as Osborne does, without ever quite surrendering to them' - Pico Iyer, "Los Angeles Times".
Lawrence Osborne is the author of The Accidental Connoisseur and The Naked Tourist. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Financial Times, the New Yorker and is a contributing editor at Men's Vogue. Born in England, he lives in Bangkok. www.lawrenceosborne.net
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846552984 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846552982 |
| Title | Bangkok Days |
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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