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.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected proof.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Summary:

A Filipino woman's rise to prominence as a rock-and-roll artist. She is Rocky, who migrates to the U.S. as a teen and falls in love with a musician. She turns to writing music, the two form a band and sell a record. Despite professional success, assimilation for an Asian is difficult.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has publicity letter and author bio laid in.

OCLC:

908587774