A cross between Confessions of an Economic Hitman and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Philosophy and Fucking in Vietnam is a sex-and-drugs soaked exploration of masculinity, socialism, and the meaning of freedom in contemporary life. In the burgeoning economy of modern day Saigon, expat men from the United States and other Western countries are living like the rich and famous in their home countries. The author, a young American lawyer-in-training, falls face first into this hedonistic world, and manages to achieve the life he's always dreamed all for the price of a plane ticket. Or so he thinks… Equal parts gritty travel memoir and coming-of-age parable, Philosophy and Fucking in Vietnam is an unapologetic snapshot of a unique and under-explored place and time.
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