A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be

by Fred Reed

"Oprah? I remember her," said Uncle Hant reflectively. "Looks like five hundred pounds of bear liver in a plastic bag?"

So go the essays in A Brass Pole in Bangkok, sometimes wildly funny, sometimes deadly serious, always merciless in their unmasking of the pretenses and charlatans of society. Fred, a former Marine, subscribes to no ideology ("an ideology is just a systematic way of misunderstanding the world") but exuberantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059539390X
• ISBN13: 9780595393909
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"