1999, ISBN: 0802136494

[EAN: 9780802136497], Nouveau livre, [SC: 1.42], [PU: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Called "striking" by The New York Times Book… More...

[EAN: 9780802136497], Nouveau livre, [SC: 1.42], [PU: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Called "striking" by The New York Times Book Review, Gold by the Inch is the story of a young New Yorker of Asian descent who has returned to the country of his birth following a disastrous relationship and his father's death. In a Bangkok drunk on the nation's financial miracle - and high on an assortment of other things - the narrator meets Thong, a young, beautiful male hustler who works at a nightclub. As his romantic obsession with Thong grows, the narrator tries to convince himself that it transcends its commercial nature, but he is quickly forced into a hard look at the connections between desire and exploitation, personal and national identity. Lawrence Chua vividly combines Southeast Asia's troubled history with evocations of its modern face - its polyglot culture, its colonial past, the cool futurism of its skyscrapers and its sex industry. Written in hard-bitten, dazzling prose, Gold by the Inch is a stunning debut., Books<

ISBN: 9780802136497

Called striking"" by The New York Times Book Review, Gold by the Inch is the story of a young New Yorker of Asian descent who has returned to the country of his birth following a disastro… More...

Called striking"" by The New York Times Book Review, Gold by the Inch is the story of a young New Yorker of Asian descent who has returned to the country of his birth following a disastrous relationship and his father''s death. In a Bangkok drunk on the nation''s financial miracle - and high on an assortment of other things - the narrator meets Thong, a young, beautiful male hustler who works at a nightclub. As his romantic obsession with Thong grows, the narrator tries to convince himself that it transcends its commercial nature, but he is quickly forced into a hard look at the connections between desire and exploitation, personal and national identity. Lawrence Chua vividly combines Southeast Asia''s troubled history with evocations of its modern face - its polyglot culture, its colonial past, the cool futurism of its skyscrapers and its sex industry. Written in hard-bitten, dazzling prose, Gold by the Inch is a stunning debut. "" | Gold by the Inch by Lawrence Chua Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Fiction > Literary P10140, Lawrence Chua<

1999, ISBN: 9780802136497

A Novel, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press], Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999