Author's choice : selected writings of Kerima Polotan / [by Kerima Polotan].

Our own view is that as fine a short story writers as Miss Polotan is, she is ten times a better journalist. No one... commands a wider repertory of rhetorical devices. Irony, sarcasm, wit, piercing humor and the big "put on" before the balloon of pretension and bombast is finally and irrevocably deflated - Miss Polotan's art at its acid best is classical in finish and execution. Among her peers in the widely-practiced art, Miss Polotan is in a class by herself...(She) uses distilled poison, of a chemistry kept secret since the noon tide of the quinquesento. Summary punishment is foreign to her vocabulary. As a Christian, she allows her victims reasonable time to atone for their sins, while she stands at (their) bedside in glee, watching them expire in slow agony. Miss Polotan is the Lucrezia Borgia of Philippine Letters. (-Armando Manalo) Mother of ten, the author was married for 31 years to Juan C. Tuvera. Miss Polotan was educated in public schools before the war and earned an AB from Arellano University in 1953. She has also published other books : The Hand of the Enemy (a novel), Stories (short fiction), and Adventures in a Forgotten Country (essays).