num_pages: 288
description: A PASSIONATE AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLDS HOTTEST METROPOLISTourists come to Bangkok for many reasonsa 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. And so the restless exile stays.Osbornes is a visceral experience of Bangkok whether hes 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 Osbornes faith in adventure and the world.
language: English
title: Bangkok Days
publisher: North Point Press