Lightning on the Sun (2000) is the only novel by Robert Bingham, published after his death in 1999.

The novel relates how Asher, a "privileged young man", travels to Cambodia and wrestles with, amongst other things, drug addiction and trouble with a loan shark. In the New York Times, Stacey D'Erasmo highlighted Bingham's "wicked sense of humor"[1] and stated that the book reaches its peak in quality when Bingham's writing is at its "most nihilistic, when he lets the devils play."[1] In a review of the novel, Publishers Weekly commented that Bingham "might have become one of the strongest (writers) of his generation"[2] The novel was partly inspired by Bingham's own time spent in Cambodia.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Wasted". Books. The New York Times. April 23, 2000. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham". April 2000.
  3. ↑ "The life and death of Robert Bingham". TheGuardian.com. July 2001.
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