Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, & then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day. Osborne`s Bangkok is a vibrant, instinctual city full of contradictions. He wanders the streets, dining on insects, trawling through forgotten neighbourhoods, decayed temples & sleazy bars. Far more than a travel book, Bangkok Days explores both the little-known, extraordinary city & the lives of a handful of doomed ex-patriates living there, `as vivid a set of liars & losers as was ever invented by Graham Greene` (New York Times).