Bangkok Days

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<p>Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day.</p><p>Osborne's Bangkok is a vibrant, instinctual city full of contradictions. He wanders the streets, dining on insects, trawling through forgotten neighbourhoods, decayed temples and sleazy bars.</p><p>Far more than a travel book,<i>Bangkok Days</i>explores both the little-known, extraordinary city and the lives of a handful of doomed ex-patriates living there, 'as vivid a set of liars and losers as was ever invented by Graham Greene' (<i>New York Times</i>).</p>

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Born in England,<b>Lawrence Osborne</b>is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark and<i>Beautiful Animals.</i>His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including<i>Bangkok Days</i>,<i>Paris Dreambook</i>and<i>The Wet and the Dry.</i>His short story 'Volcano' was selected for<i>Best American Short Stories 2012,</i>and he has written<i></i>for the<i>New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler,</i>the<i>New Yorker, Forbes, Harpers</i>and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.

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