Jessica Hagedorn "Dogeaters" Book (1990)

Details: Used, spine, and shelf-worn paperback book. Fiction. Jessica Hagedorn, "Dogeaters," Penguin Books (1990). "Entertaining and compelling... At the end, you emerge from its intense, dreamlike world feeling as if you've been to the Philippines." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Hagedorn transcends social strata, gender, culture, and politics in this exuberant, witty, and telling portrait of Philippine society." - The San Diego Union Description: “An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” - Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer  Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book AwardWelcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive.A wildly disparate group of characters—from movie stars to waiters, from a young