11, ISBN: 9781468304633

""A Joan Didionesque heroine. in Graham Greene's Far East. a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesClaire, the young bride of a gove… Mehr…

""A Joan Didionesque heroine. in Graham Greene's Far East. a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesClaire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson van" ""A Joan Didionesque heroine. in Graham Greene's Far East. a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesClaire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction." Literary, Fiction & Literature, Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man~~ Lily Tuck~~Literary~~Fiction & Literature~~9781468304633, en, Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, Lily Tuck, 9781468304633, The Overlook Press, 11/01/1999, , , , The Overlook Press, 11/01/1999<

ISBN: 9781468304633

“A Joan Didionesque heroine . . . in Graham Greene’s Far East . . . a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Claire, the young bride… Mehr…

“A Joan Didionesque heroine . . . in Graham Greene’s Far East . . . a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction. 9780879517236,9781468304633,1468304631 Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., W. W. Norton<

1999, ISBN: 9781468304633

Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes b… Mehr…

Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction. [PU: ABRAMS], Seiten: 192, ABRAMS, 1999<

2011, ISBN: 9781468304633

""A Joan Didionesque heroine. in Graham Greene's Far East. a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesClaire, the young bride of a gove… Mehr…

""A Joan Didionesque heroine. in Graham Greene's Far East. a telling portrait of a woman, a marriage, and a culture."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesClaire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives" Literary, Fiction & Literature, Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man~~ Lily Tuck~~Literary~~Fiction & Literature~~9781468304633, en, Siam: Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, Lily Tuck, 9781468304633, The Overlook Press, 11/01/1999, , , , The Overlook Press, 11/01/1999<

1999, ISBN: 9781468304633

Or the Woman Who Shot a Man, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: ABRAMS], ABRAMS, 1999