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Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years immediately after the fall of Vietnam.

Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.

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Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years immediately after the fall of Vietnam.

Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.

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Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years immediately after the fall of Vietnam.

Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.

Jay McInerney details the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads Christopher Ransom toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate—in a novel of grand scale and serious implications.]]> 1985 4 0 false Sat Nov 28 20:19:40 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 07:30:57 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 07:30:57 -0800 2009 78980902 2976529 25073 0747553661 9780747553663 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920m/25073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920s/25073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25073.Ransom 3.18 196 1985 4 0 false Wed Nov 25 13:39:29 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 13:39:29 -0800 2009 77950298 2949112 25073 0747553661 9780747553663 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920m/25073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920s/25073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25073.Ransom 3.18 196 1985 4 0 false Mon Nov 16 06:58:40 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 06:58:44 -0800 2009 77862177 689045 25073 0747553661 9780747553663 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920m/25073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920s/25073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25073.Ransom 3.18 196 1985 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 11:31:29 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:31:29 -0800 2009 77856566 1204694 25073 0747553661 9780747553663 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920m/25073.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920s/25073.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25073.Ransom 3.18 196 1985 3 0 false Sun Nov 15 10:26:38 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:26:38 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=25073