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Letters to Montgomery Clift / a novel by Noël Alumit.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.L86 L47 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alumit, Noel, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clift, Montgomery--Fiction.
- Clift, Montgomery.
- Filipino Americans--Fiction.
- Filipino Americans.
- Children of disappeared persons--Fiction.
- Children of disappeared persons.
- Foster home care--Fiction.
- Foster home care.
- Gay youth--Fiction.
- Gay youth.
- Adoptees--Fiction.
- Adoptees.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage Pub., [2002]
- Summary:
- ""I started my life in America and my search for my parents, well only my mother now - with Monty as my guide. The journey to find my mother would not be complete without him." And so begins Letters to Montgomery Clift, a first novel by Noel Alumit; a coming of age story of Bong Bong Luwad, a Filipino boy, who enlists the spirit of 1950s screen idol Montgomery Clift to help him find his mother who is imprisoned in the Philippines under the Marcos regime." "After being sent to America by his mother, he is taught by his Aunt to write letters to saints and dead relatives to ask them for favors. As he watches the movie The Search, where Montgomery Clift helps a young boy find his mother, he starts to believe that Monty can do this for him. His letters begin and through time he starts to see visions of Monty himself." "As he reaches adolescence and his hopes of finding his mother diminish, Bong Bong begins to fall deeper into his fantasy world with Clift." "When eventually he travels back to his homeland and finds the whereabouts of his mother, he is able to bid a final farewell to Monty and begin his life anew back in the States with his family. Letters To Montgomery Clift is a novel of endurance and hope. It is a tale of growing up, coming out and going home."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Stonewall Book Award - Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Winner, 2003
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alumit, Noel, 1968- Letters to Montgomery Clift.
- ISBN:
- 1931561028
- 9781931561020
- OCLC:
- 48550981
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