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050 _aPS 9993.G937
_b.M285 1975
245 4 _aThe mainstream and other stories /
_cAmadis Ma. Guerrero.
260 _a[S.l.] :
_b[s.n.],
_c c1975.
300 _a77 pages
_c 23 cm.
520 _a a cub reporter
520 _a 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
520 _a a student activist
520 _a a university professor
520 _a an old maid pathetically in love with a young traffic cop
520 _a 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
520 _a some, very good
520 _aThe stories in this volume are good
650 _aShort stories, Philippine (English).
_2sears
942 _cIRC
999 _c63243
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