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On cursed ground and other stories / Vicente Garcia Groyon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2004.Description: x, 144 pages 23 cmISBN:
  • 9715424384
LOC classification:
  • PS 9993.G78  .On11 2004
Summary: In his first collection of short stories, award-winning Vicente Garcia discovering sinister truths lurking beneath the surfaces of the worlds they inhabit. A Boy and his sister keep a grisly secret to preserve their way of life. A woman of a certain age entertains impure thoughts about a teenager. A young man in a menage a trois simmers his loneliness into violence. A teacher struggles to break through the codes of secrecy boy confronts envy, lust, and malice, and finds them emanating from himself. Written between 1989 and 2004, these stories trace the boundaries between grace and sin, baring our human capacity for both.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PS 9993.G78 .On11 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA0000317328
Isagani R. Cruz Collection Isagani R. Cruz Collection Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center PS 9993.G78 .On11 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3IRC0000001831

In his first collection of short stories, award-winning Vicente Garcia discovering sinister truths lurking beneath the surfaces of the worlds they inhabit. A Boy and his sister keep a grisly secret to preserve their way of life. A woman of a certain age entertains impure thoughts about a teenager. A young man in a menage a trois simmers his loneliness into violence. A teacher struggles to break through the codes of secrecy boy confronts envy, lust, and malice, and finds them emanating from himself. Written between 1989 and 2004, these stories trace the boundaries between grace and sin, baring our human capacity for both.

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