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Escaping to Bangkok: where reinvention meets notoriety and unforgettable characters thrive.
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Bangkok Babylon
the real-life exploits of bangkok's legendary expatriates are often stranger than fiction
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224 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2009
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Summary
Bangkok Babylon: Tales of Expatriates and Reinvention in the City of Angels
In the colorful tradition of Orwell, 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. <…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804840774 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0804840776 |
| Author: | Jerry Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Tuttle Publishing |
| Imprint: | Tuttle Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 133mm x 40mm |
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Jerry Hopkins
Jerry Hopkins has published best-selling biographies of Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and was an editor and correspondent for Rolling Stone for 20 years.
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