Standard Deviations
Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia
$29.75
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2002
Summary
I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing continent and looted billions, like a titanic parlor trick converting all that wealth into abandoned office complexes and half-completed shopping malls… . I wanted it all-the money, the sex, the drug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812992694 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812992695 |
| Author: | Karl Taro Greenfeld |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Villard |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
“Indian spirituality and violence in Jakarta, Japanese bar girls and ex-models in Kathmandu, Standard Deviations has it all. Have you ever wanted to set out for alien regions on a voyage of pure hedonism, self discovery or both? Karl Taro Greenfeld has done it. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There is a lot adventure and entertainment here and good stories along the way.”
-William T. Vollmann
” From Bangkok mega-slums to drug-drenched primitive resorts in the Gulf of Siam, Karl Taro Greenfeld opens one door after another into the astonishing multiverse of the New Asia. If it were simply another travel book, Standard Deviations would be a fine one, but this a life’s journey, undertaken with the soul at stake. Lucid, merciless, unforgettable.”
-William Gibson, author of Neuromancer
About The Author
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the editor of Time Asia and author of Speed Tribes- Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Generation. A former correspondent for The Nation and writer for Time, he has also contributed articles to GQ, Outside, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and two daughters.
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