Sightseeing

Lapcharoensap, Rattawut

ISBN 10: 0802117880 / ISBN 13: 9780802117885

Published by Grove Press (edition First Edition), 2004

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0802117880-11-6-29

Synopsis:

Sightseeing is a debut written by a young, award-winning Thai-American writer. Set in contemporary Thailand, these stories are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. The stories in Sightseeing present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes.
In the prizewinning opening story, "Farangs," the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty tourist, and the confrontation that ensues between the native boy and the girl's American boyfriend culminates wondrously amid flying mangoes and Clint Eastwood - a pet pig - swimming out to sea. In "Sightseeing," the much-anticipated holiday of a young man about to leave for college and his loving and fiercely independent mother becomes a different kind of pilgrimage altogether when they are forced to confront the mother's impending blindness. The concluding novella, "Cockfighter," is "an astonishing coming-of-ager" (Kirkus Reviews), in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family's vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations.

Review: By the end of the first page of Sightseeing you're sighing with relief, safe in Thai-American Lapcharoensap's confident embrace. -- Time Out This debut show more than mere promise: it is a fine achievement in its own right. -- William Sutcliffe, Guardian Lapcharoensap can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent. -- The New York Times Book Review Unforgettable... Lapcharoensap?s stories of family life?often terribly dark and tragicomic - take you to places both familiar and exotic.**** * New York Post *

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sightseeing
Publisher: Grove Press (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition.