Siam, or, The Woman Who Shot a Man

Woodstock: Sewanee Writers' Series / The Overlook Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page ('For Madeline with best wishes, Lily Tuck'). A bit smoky, top page ridge faintly foxed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 2000 Hard Cover. 192 pp. 8vo. "Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his fate. Her quest into what happened, fueled by the longing and loneliness she feels in an exotic land marked by growing unrest, leads to a tragic truth that becomes a metaphor for two cultures in collision. Written in powerful, arresting prose, this taut suspense novel further establishes Lily Tuck as a major voice in literary fiction.