
Gold by the Inch
A Novel
Lawrence Chua(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published on 28. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8021-3649-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-3649-7 (9780802136497)
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