Scent of Apples A Collection of Stories / Bienvenido N. Santos ; foreword by Jessica Hagedorn ; introduction by Allan Punzalan Isaac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Bienvenido N., author.

Series:

Classics of Asian American literature.

Classics of Asian American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

revised edition

Place of Publication:

London : University of Washington Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of sixteen stories bring the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.--Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword : My lost country / by Jessica Hagedorn

Introduction to the 2015 edition : footnote to memory / by Allan Punzalan Isaac

Introduction to the 1979 edition / by Leonard Casper

Preface to the 1979 edition.

Immigration blues

Scent of apples

And beyond, more walls

The hurt men

Manila house

A peculiar rustling

Nightclub

Of other deaths

Lonely in the autumn evening

The door

For these ruins

Letter : the faraway summer

The day the dancers came

The contender

Quicker with arrows

Footnote to a laundry list.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806259

0295806257

OCLC:

930703925