{"product_id":"a-woman-of-bangkok","title":"A Woman of Bangkok","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in Thailand in the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai, whom all Bangkok knows as \"The White Leopard\". No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature’s long line of brazen working girls. An unmitigated liar and brutally transparent about her desire for money, she unscrupulously milks young Reggie Joyce, the son of an Anglican vicar, with complete frankness. Reggie knows her for what she is yet there seems no folly he will not commit for her, no road to ruin he dares not take. Vilai becomes an obsession for him—an obsession that brings Reggie moments of ecstasy, months of anguish and the threat of utter disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledged today as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Woman of Bangkok\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. While the Fifties was a very different world, what is remarkable about this book is that the more the bar scene in Bangkok changes, the more it stays the same. Just as Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill stand eternal, Vilai takes a very special, dare one say seminal, place as the first and best of the many anti-heroines of the now burgeoning Bangkok novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Reynolds\u003c\/strong\u003e worked for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBangkok Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and other journals as writer and editor, sandwiched between further unaccompanied postings with the UN in the Far East and Africa. He finally returned to journalism in Bangkok in the Seventies and was a favourite contributor of articles on a range of local topics with a strong popular following in Thailand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123067531377,"sku":"9789810854300","price":18.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/A_Woman_of_Bangkok_by_Jack_Reynolds_00.jpg?v=1602757405","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/a-woman-of-bangkok","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}