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.
Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, novelist and playwright, born and raised in the Philippines. Her novels include Dogeaters which was nominated for a National Book Award and The Gangster of Love; a short story collection, Danger and Beauty ).
Jessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. Her novels include Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster Of Love, and Dogeaters, winner of the American Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of Danger And Beauty, a collection of poetry and prose, and the editor of three anthologies: Manila Noir, Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home In The World.
Table of Contents
DogeatersPart One: Coconut Palace
Love Letters The King of Coconuts The White Bouquet Mister Heartbreak Jungle Chronicle His Mother, the Whore Floating Bodies Serenade Tsismis Sprikitik Her Eminent Ascent into Heaven President William McKinley Addresses a Delegation of Methodist Churchmen, 1898 Heroin Her Mother, Rita Hayworth High Society Surrender Avila Arrested in Human Rights Rally Dispute Sleeping Beauty One Christmas in a Mountain Lodge up in Baguio, Date Unknown Epiphany Breaking Spells In the Artist's House Excerpt from the Only Letter Ever Written by Clarita Avila Jungle Chronicle
Part Two: The Song of Bullets
The President's Wife Has a Dream Man with a Mission Romeo Rosales Paradise The Weeping Bride Last Chance Dateline Manila Movie Star Golf Insect Bounty Hunger Redemption Jungle Chronicle The Famine of Dreams Bananas and the Republic Terrain Luna Moth Pucha Gonzaga