| Dogeaters Contributor(s): Hagedorn, Jessica (Author) |
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ISBN: 014014904X ISBN-13: 9780140149043 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1991 Annotation: "As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor" (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89016195 |
| Lexile Measure: 860 |
| Series: Contemporary American Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.04" W x 7.79" (0.42 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 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--from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philippines--becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. In 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. |