TY  - BOOK
TI  - The mainstream and other stories
AV  - PS 9993.G937  .M285 1975
PY  - 1975///
CY  - [S.l.] : 
PB  - [s.n.]
KW  - Short stories, Philippine (English)
KW  - sears
N2  -  a cub reporter;  a movie "star whose light is extinguished." These are interior stories, telling of what happens within a person, and viewing the external world from the viewpoint of a person's consciousness. There are recurrent themes. One of them is loneliness - or to be more exact, aloneness. Another is personal integrity. --From the foreword;  a student activist;  a university professor;  an old maid pathetically in love with a young traffic cop;  and all are interesting - which is the essential quality of competent story-telling. Amadis Ma. Guerrero's characters are alive and credible, and they are amazingly varied: an old woman doomed to die of heart failure;  some, very good; The stories in this volume are good
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