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Ransom

Ransom

McInerney, Jay

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0394741188
ISBN13: 9780394741185
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 12 1985
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.07
Language: English
From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes a novel detailing the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads a man toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate.

Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels--a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass.

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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