The Gods of Angkor Wat - Paperback

by Ken Rodgers (Author)

"Tough stories told brilliantly, beautifully." The Gods of Angkor Wat exposes the complexity of human emotions with all their scars and bruises. This collection of short stories takes us on a tour of battlefields, from a schoolyard playground to the family kitchen, from a Mexican bullring to peer pressure in the killing fields of Vietnam. Each tale bears witness to life as it is-and not as we wish it were-revealing compassion, violence, love and betrayal through an unflinching look at the human condition. Hard-bitten yet redemptive, these stories offer tightly woven prose in the literary fiction milieu.

Author Biography

Ken Rodgers is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Idaho. Ken was reared in Arizona where he joined the United States Marine Corps in 1966. He fought in the Vietnam War and along with his wife, Betty, made the feature length documentary film, BRAVO! COMMON MEN, UNCOMMON VALOR, about the seventy-seven day siege of Khe Sanh. Ken holds an accounting degree from Arizona State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. He has taught creative writing since 2000. Ken is an intellectual vagabond who likes to write poetry, fiction and personal essays. As for reading, he likes philosophy, history, poetry, essay and fiction. His previous publications include the poetry books "Trench Dining" (Running Wolf Press, 2003), "Barstow and Other Poems" (BK Publications 2008) and "Passenger Pigeons" (Jaxon's Press 2010).