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Lawrence Osborne

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The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Travel

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Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist currently residing in New York City.

Osborne was educated at Cambridge and Harvard, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico, Thailand and Istanbul.

He is the author of the novel Ania Malina, a book about Paris, Paris Dreambook, the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace, a controversial book about autism called American Normal, and three subsequent travel books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009: a book about wine, The Accidental Connoisseur, The Naked Tourist, and an account of expatriate life in Bangkok called Bangkok Days. His short stories have appeared in many American magazines. His story Volcano originally p ...more

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	Beautiful Animals 3.42 avg rating — 2,297 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgiven 3.74 avg rating — 1,770 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne (Goodreads Author), Raymond Chandler 3.57 avg rating — 1,377 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunters in the Dark 3.69 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ballad of a Small Player 3.45 avg rating — 948 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bangkok Days 3.37 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World 3.63 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Kingdom 3.24 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wet and the Dry: Ventures into Worlds Where Alcohol Is Embraced...or Forbidden 3.38 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall 3.56 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which--we are told--a mad loner has been discovered who has lost all contact with the modern world. It seems inevitable that this desire will one day be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association as Robinson Crusoe Syndrome.”
― Lawrence Osborne

tags: travel

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“It’s always too late to change.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Ballad of a Small Player

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“There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

tags: travel

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Pastorale americana di Philip Roth

14 votes, 37.8%

Vuoto assoluto di Stanisław Lem

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La donna che scriveva racconti di Lucia Berlin

3 votes, 8.1%

Mentre le donne dormono di Javier Marías

2 votes, 5.4%

Luce d'agosto di William Faulkner

2 votes, 5.4%

Bangkok di Lawrence Osborne

2 votes, 5.4%

La vita in tempo di pace di Francesco Pecoraro

2 votes, 5.4%

Imperium di Robert Harris

2 votes, 5.4%

Terminus Radioso di Antoine Volodine

1 vote, 2.7%

Il posto di Annie Ernaux

1 vote, 2.7%

End zone di Don DeLillo

1 vote, 2.7%

Il viaggio verticale di Enrique Vila-Matas

1 vote, 2.7%

I territori del lupo di Javier Marías

1 vote, 2.7%

Il potere del cane di Don Winslow

1 vote, 2.7%

La notte dell'oracolo di Paul Auster

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Timbuctù di Paul Auster

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Abbacinante: L'ala sinistra di Mircea Cărtărescu

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Assalonne, Assalonne! di William Faulkner

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