Gold by the inch / Lawrence Chua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chua, Lawrence.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1998]

Summary:

The narrator of Gold by the Inch, a young New Yorker of Asian descent, has returned to the country of his birth following a disastrous relationship and his father's death. Thailand is in the throes of rampant economic development, and everyone the narrator meets - from noodle-shop owners to his own relatives to the jaded children of the rich - seems to be drunk on the nation's financial miracle. Or high on something else. The latter is true of Thong, the very young, very beautiful male prostitute who works at a Bangkok nightclub and with whom the narrator becomes romantically obsessed. As he tries to convince himself that their affair transcends the limits of commercial love, the narrator is forced to look at the connections between desire and exploitation, personal and national identity.

ISBN:

0802116264

OCLC:

37493239