# Bangkok Days

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- Book: [Bangkok Days](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-osborne/bangkok-days) ([Bangkok Days.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-osborne/bangkok-days.md))
- Authors: [Lawrence Osborne](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-osborne)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-597-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2010-03-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 ).