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The Queen lives alone : personal essays / Ronald Baytan.

By: Material type: TextTextDiliman, Quezon City : The University of the Philippines Press, 2012Description: 154 p. 18cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789715426923
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 9550.9 .B345 2012
Summary: The Queen Lives Alone! Personal The Queen Lives Alone! Personal Esssays gathers together sixteen nonfiction texts on cosmopolitan existence, people's Idiosyncrasies, poetic musings, and family stories, Through wit and humor, Baytan connects these four threads to tell the different facets of love-loving the self, loving other, and loving the sublime. There are no grand events or life changing miracles in this book-only the simplest details of the everyday, the smallest of gestures, and the littlest acts of kindness. For this book is a celebration of smallness-which constitutes the throb and throe of our solitary existence. In the end, The Queen Lives Alone is about the agonizing grace of being alone, of being alive.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Isagani R. Cruz Collection Isagani R. Cruz Collection Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center PR 9550.9 .B345 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3IRC2014000046
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PR 9550.9 .B345 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA2012001663
Filipiniana Filipiniana Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana PR 9550.9 .B345 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3AEA2012001664

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The Queen Lives Alone! Personal The Queen Lives Alone! Personal Esssays gathers together sixteen nonfiction texts on cosmopolitan existence, people's Idiosyncrasies, poetic musings, and family stories, Through wit and humor, Baytan connects these four threads to tell the different facets of love-loving the self, loving other, and loving the sublime. There are no grand events or life changing miracles in this book-only the simplest details of the everyday, the smallest of gestures, and the littlest acts of kindness. For this book is a celebration of smallness-which constitutes the throb and throe of our solitary existence. In the end, The Queen Lives Alone is about the agonizing grace of being alone, of being alive.

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