Lawrence Osborne
Lawrence Osborne was born in England and lives in New York City. A widely published and widely traveled journalist, he is the author most recently of "The Accidental Connoisseur," "The Naked Tourist" and "Bangkok Days," all published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. He has lived a nomadic life in...
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Lawrence Osborne was born in England and lives in New York City. A widely published and widely traveled journalist, he is the author most recently of "The Accidental Connoisseur," "The Naked Tourist" and "Bangkok Days," all published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. He has lived a nomadic life in Mexico, Italy, France, Morocco, Cambodia and Thailand, places that he draws on in his fiction and non-fiction. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Tin House, Bidoun and Fiction, while his upcoming novel "The Forgiven" will be published by Crown in 2012.
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This is quite an engrossing tale which takes place in the exotic world of Cambodia. A young English teacher, bored with his complacent life, decides to disappear. During his first night in Cambodia, he tries his hand at a gambling casino. What happens there sets off a series of events in which gre...
#HuntersintheDark Available 1/12/16 4Stars!! @RandomHouse @lawrenceosborne For this to only be 320 pages, it was a VERY long book. The majority of it was spent talking about the food, the sites, the traditions and the people. For those of you who are into that type of thing, the author took a lot...
Robert is the calm, innocent center of this story as more sinister and beautiful elements swirl around him. Often I want a book to rest on great characters, and this one doesn't, but I loved it anyway. Instead, it rested on creating a world both real and unbelievable, with good and bad emulsified ...
The prose borders on the surreal at times, with its trance-like sluggishness that seduces with its elegant descriptions of earth and ennui: Here the trees sticking out of the surface were white as bone and draped with creepers. Driftwood floated idly past them, a few household items, broken birds' ...
Several weeks ago, I joined a local reading club which is now reading this book. At that time, I glanced at a summary of the novel and at first sight, I wasn't sure that I would like it because I'm not a great fan of contemporary novels. But this one is set in Macau which, to me, hints of exoticism ...
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