Gold by the Inch - A Novel

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Chua
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.1999
• EAN: 9780802136497
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3649-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 184 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Wales, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Fiction: general & literary, c 1990 to c 1999, FICTION / LGBT / Gay, Relating to adulthood, CULTURAL HERITAGE / British, loss;love;growing up;vacation;trivia;village