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008			051121s1982 000 0 eng d
040			_erda
050			_a PL 5539 _b.Al14 1982
100			_aAlbis, Abelardo S. _948548
245		4	_aThe bell ringer and other stories / _c by A.S. Albis ; introdusction by Bienvenido N. Santos.
264			_aQuezon City : _bNew Day Publishers, _c[1982]
300			_a104 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aThis is story telling at its purest at its simplest, without pretense, without any attempt at artfulness as if most of them could be told with the old traditional beginning, if the writer had so desired: "Once upon a time, there lived. . ." but not ending in the usual, "and they lived happily ever after." No, not quite. There is sadness in the lives of these characters: death, frustration, violence, deprivation. Each seems touched with some kind of disaster. --From the introduction
650			_aPhilippine fiction (English). _2sears
650			_aShort stories, Filipino. _2sears
700			_aSantos, Bienvenido N. _935685
942			_cIRC
999			_c60237 _d60237