Dogeaters

2013-08-06 Fiction

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Release : 2013-08-06
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dogeaters written by Jessica Hagedorn. This book was released on 2013-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award and a 2015 Wall Street Journal Book Club selection: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950s. Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.

Dogeaters

1991-07-01 Fiction

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Release : 1991-07-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 04X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dogeaters written by Jessica Hagedorn. This book was released on 1991-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award A classic and influential story—often considered “the quintessential Filipino American novel” (The Nation)—centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.

Dogeaters

2015-04-10 Drama

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Release : 2015-04-10
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dogeaters written by Jessica Hagedorn. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes, "Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures . . . she takes aim at racism in the U.S. and develops in her dramas the themes of displacement and the search for belonging." Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, novelist and playwright, born and raised in the Philippines. Her novels include Dogeaters (Penguin 1990) which was nominated for a National Book Award and The Gangster of Love (Penguin 1996); a short story collection, Danger and Beauty (City Lights 2002).

Dream Jungle

2004-09-28 Fiction

Author : Jessica Hagedorn
Release : 2004-09-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 090/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dream Jungle written by Jessica Hagedorn. This book was released on 2004-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters—a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy; a woman ensnared in the sex industry; a Filipino-American writer; and a jaded actor—find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis.

Manila Noir

2013 Fiction

Author : Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Release : 2013
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 60X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Manila Noir written by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she's complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by Dogeaters (Penguin, 1991) author and National Book Award Nominee Jessica Hagedorn, and featuring original stories from a stunning group of multi-award-winning authors.

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