"Ransom," Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the
distinguished tradition of novels about exile. 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.
Jay McInerney details the pattern of adventure and disillusionment
that leads Christopher Ransom toward an inevitable reckoning with
his fate--in a novel of grand scale and serious implications.
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