Bangkok Days

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. 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. Far More Than A Travel Book, Bangkok Days 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' (new York Times).