The gangster of love / Jessica Hagedorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagedorn, Jessica, 1949-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino Americans--Fiction.

Filipino Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Summary:

Alternating between the Philippines and the United States, namely New York and Los Angeles, The Gangster of Love is the story of Rocky Rivera, who plays in a dissolute rock band with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Elvis Chang; Rocky's spirited and deeply traditional mother, Milagros; her troubled and bedeviled brother, Voltaire; her wonderfully eccentric uncle, Marlon; and her best friend, the wildly unpredictable, enigmatic Keiko. These, along with other characters real and imagined, form a family story spanning generations and cultures. Together they grow to and through adulthood, acquiring spouses, lovers, companions, children, and in-laws; making a place for themselves in the world; shattering myths, icons, and expectations; struggling to find that point where alienation and assimilation, identity and dignity, coincide.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0395754127

OCLC:

34283178