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Bangkok: Just Under the Skin
Bangkok: Just Under the Skin
Bangkok: Just Under the Skin
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Bangkok—Just Under the Skin, looks at the world of the single, expat man in his often-misguided quest to find love in Bangkok, The City of Angels. These 19 short stories provide an insider’s view of the nightlife and extravagance this city has to offer, which often leads to drunken misadventure and unsure footing, on what can be a delightful, or a dangerously slippery slope. There are stories of heartache, heartbreak, true love found, laughter and friendship. Explored through the genres of noir, magical realism, narrative, character sketch, novella, dialogue, and told through various perspectives, these often-gritty tales will take you by the hand on an odyssey—often doomed—into the often-treacherous heart of this exotic capital. Bangkok is The City of Angels, but it also can be a devilishly lonely place.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 9, 2012
ISBN9781476464978
Bangkok: Just Under the Skin
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Grant J Venables

I am a Canadian who lives and writes in Southeast Asia. Presently I work in Kuala Lumpur, teaching English Literature. I was born and raised in and around Shuswap Lake in south-central British Columbia, but I have also lived in northern Alberta. I went to school at Grande Prairie Regional College, then I moved to Edmonton Alberta, and attended the University of Alberta. From there I moved to Bangkok, Thailand and furthered my studies with Michigan State University. I am married to a wonderful woman, Kaeo (who is on the cover of Bangkok—Just Under the Skin). I have three sons, Kritsana, Heathcliff-Manx, and Keats J. We keep a small farm in Thailand where we raise organic fruit and produce, and ducks...a great number of ducks.When not reading, writing, or teaching, I spend time with my family, my friends, my ducks, and my trees. Trees provide a certain sanity and calm in a world so often too concerned with the insane rush to destroy itself.

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