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Bangkok Babylon : The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok's Legendary
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- Etalase: Fiction Novel
Bangkok Babylon : The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates are often Stranger than Fiction
In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters.
Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur, three Vietnam war helicopter pilots who opened a go-go bar, a pianist at one of the world's best hotels who ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a gem dealer who smuggles antiquities from Burma and Cambodia, a detective who tracks runaways who fake their deaths, and a documentary filmmaker who lives with elephants.
All of them "escaped" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.
Product details
Format Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions 130 x 203 x 12.7mm | 284g
Publication date 10 Sep 2009
Publisher Tuttle Publishing
Publication City/Country Boston, United States
Language English
Edition Statement Original ed.
ISBN10 0804840776
ISBN13 9780804840774
Bestsellers rank 73,802
In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters.
Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur, three Vietnam war helicopter pilots who opened a go-go bar, a pianist at one of the world's best hotels who ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, a gem dealer who smuggles antiquities from Burma and Cambodia, a detective who tracks runaways who fake their deaths, and a documentary filmmaker who lives with elephants.
All of them "escaped" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.
Product details
Format Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions 130 x 203 x 12.7mm | 284g
Publication date 10 Sep 2009
Publisher Tuttle Publishing
Publication City/Country Boston, United States
Language English
Edition Statement Original ed.
ISBN10 0804840776
ISBN13 9780804840774
Bestsellers rank 73,802
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