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  Bangkok Days (Paperback) By (author) Lawrence Osborne

  

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  Short Description for Bangkok DaysPresents a record of adventures and misadventures in the world's hottest metropolis Bangkok. This title 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.
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  • Publisher: HARVILL SECKER
  • Published: 02 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9781846552984 ISBN 10: 1846552982
  • Sales rank: 503,264

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Full description for Bangkok Days

• 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".