Ransom (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)
by:
Jay McInerney (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747553663 (0747553661)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
This novel falls prey to the sophomore slump. McInerney was trying too hard to distance himself from his first novel I think. The humor is still there, and I enjoyed the balance he made of the divide in Japan between the past and the modern. If there is anything wrong with the novel it is that too m...
In the 80s, everything Japanese was cooler, and there were lots of books about American expats "finding themselves" by going to Asia and learning Asian martial arts and Asian philosophy and basically being more Asian than the Asians. So this is about an American expat who hangs around with other exp...
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