{"product_id":"dogeaters-isbn-9780140149043","title":"Dogeaters","description":"\u003cb\u003e“An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic and influential story—often considered “the quintessential Filipino American novel” (\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e)—centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.Dogeaters\u003cb\u003ePart One: Coconut Palace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove Letters\u003cbr\u003eThe King of Coconuts\u003cbr\u003eThe White Bouquet\u003cbr\u003eMister Heartbreak\u003cbr\u003eJungle Chronicle\u003cbr\u003eHis Mother, the Whore\u003cbr\u003eFloating Bodies\u003cbr\u003eSerenade\u003cbr\u003eTsismis\u003cbr\u003eSprikitik\u003cbr\u003eHer Eminent Ascent into Heaven\u003cbr\u003ePresident William McKinley Addresses a Delegation of Methodist Churchmen, 1898\u003cbr\u003eHeroin\u003cbr\u003eHer Mother, Rita Hayworth\u003cbr\u003eHigh Society\u003cbr\u003eSurrender\u003cbr\u003eAvila Arrested in Human Rights Rally Dispute\u003cbr\u003eSleeping Beauty\u003cbr\u003eOne Christmas in a Mountain Lodge up in Baguio, Date Unknown\u003cbr\u003eEpiphany\u003cbr\u003eBreaking Spells\u003cbr\u003eIn the Artist's House\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the Only Letter Ever Written by Clarita Avila\u003cbr\u003eJungle Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Song of Bullets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe President's Wife Has a Dream\u003cbr\u003eMan with a Mission\u003cbr\u003eRomeo Rosales\u003cbr\u003eParadise\u003cbr\u003eThe Weeping Bride\u003cbr\u003eLast Chance\u003cbr\u003eDateline Manila\u003cbr\u003eMovie Star\u003cbr\u003eGolf\u003cbr\u003eInsect Bounty\u003cbr\u003eHunger\u003cbr\u003eRedemption\u003cbr\u003eJungle Chronicle\u003cbr\u003eThe Famine of Dreams\u003cbr\u003eBananas and the Republic\u003cbr\u003eTerrain\u003cbr\u003eLuna Moth\u003cbr\u003ePucha Gonzaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKundiman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hagedorn unwaveringly paints a menacing world, one that should sound an urgent alarm to us now—but the book is so beautiful! It’s painted in the shimmering, fierce, lush colors of memory and longing; it has the radiant evanescence of a dream—and it leaves behind the lingering authority of a dream’s veiled warning.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A surrealistically hip epic of Manila . . . Combines narrative drive with a lyric sensibility.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As sharp and fast as a street boy’s razor . . . a rich small feast of a book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e erupts from its pages, 50 percent voluptuous fever dream, 50 percent heart-stopping nightmare, 100 percent reality. The hallucinatory vision of this colonial world—the crucible of the innocent, the rapacious, the collaborators, the oblivious, the martyred—feels flawless, irrefutable.  Hagedorn writes with exhilarating stylistic dexterity, deep compassion, humor that ranges from gentle and affectionate to fire-breathing, and immense grace.  The book is every bit as astonishing as it was when it first appeared thirty years ago, and unfortunately much more pertinent—a piercing warning signal, now that we have installed a deranged and brutal pseudo-populist dictator in our own country.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Deborah Eisenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eYour Duck is My Duck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Possibly the most brutally, hilariously accurate portrait of post-colonial Jamaica I’ve ever read. And it’s a novel about the Philippines.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unquestionably a classic, \u003ci\u003eDogeaters \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour-de-force that remains as relevant and revelatory as it did when it first gut-punched the literary industry 30 years ago. Its restless prose, its collisions of peoples, cultures, and histories, and its resolute memory-keepers, such as Rio, have much left to say about our troubled times.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rigoberto González, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jessica Hagedorn has been an inspiration to me for nearly thirty years, ever since I read \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e. It is as remarkable now as it was then, an original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A shimmering, ferocious, funny, campy, disturbing, violent, benevolent, dazzling beast of a tale. \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e was a joy to read the first time, but rereading it today made me realize Jessica Hagedorn is the divine mother goddess of novelists.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sandra Cisneros, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine achievement on a very serious scale . . . This is the definitive novel of the encounter between the Philippines and America and their history of mutual illusion, antagonism, and ambiguous affection. It is a rich and satisfying work and certainly among the best novels I have read this year.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Robert Stone, author of \u003ci\u003eDog Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I still vividly remember when Dogeaters came out—it was instantly and rightfully hailed a groundbreaking American classic. Jessica Hagedorn has shaped our ways of understanding modern America and reading American literature. Her \u003ci\u003eDogeaters \u003c\/i\u003eis indelible, and indispensable in the American canon.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gina Apostol, author of \u003ci\u003eInsurrecto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mixing real-life ghouls with phantoms from the past . . . Hagedorn captured that mixture of love, laughter and sadness that stirs in every Filipino's heart. [\u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e] is a mournful, obsessive ballad about Filipino lives left in postcolonial disarray.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Randy Gener, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e] secur[ed] Hagedorn’s reputation as an important voice in Asian American letters. The narrative style impressed readers as well as critics: a multiple-character point of view that wove American pop icons into the Filipino cultural fabric, it illuminated the chaotic and wondrous post-colonial Manila of the 1950s.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No nonfiction book is likely to capture the cultural psychosis of the Phillippines nearly as well as this exceptiona novel about growing up there.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Entertaining and compelling. . . . At the end, you emerge from its intense, dreamlike world feeling as if you’ve been to the Philippines.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hagedorn transcends social strata, gender, culture, and politics in this exuberant, witty, and telling portrait of Philippine society.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe San Diego Union\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour-de-force debut . . . A kaleidoscopic view of Manila society—high and low—in which sad and sordid realities are tempered by humor and immense vitality . . . A spicy stew of a novel.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The book succeeds on the strength of its characterization . . . Hagedorn's unflinching view of Manila . . . is leavened by ironic, often humorous observations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eToxicology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDream Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gangster Of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDogeaters\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the American Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eDanger And Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poetry and prose, and the editor of three anthologies: \u003ci\u003eManila Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCharlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCharlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home In The World\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301007020261,"sku":"NP9780140149043","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140149043.jpg?v=1767725477","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dogeaters-isbn-9780140149043","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}