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008			021014s2001 eng
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050			_aPS 9993.H54 _b.B644 2001
100			_aHidalgo, Cristina Pantoja, _d-1944 _937713
245		2	_aA book of dreams : _ba novel / _cby Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo.
260			_aQuezon City : _bUniversity of the Philippines Press, _c2001
300			_a236 p. _c23 cm.
520			_aThere is Angela, who dreams strange dreams and keeps a notebook in which she writes tales and sketches which may someday become a novel. And there are Ruben, Ariel, Debbie, Luis and Cora, whose lives occasionaly intersect, and who connect subtly with one another in their own dreams and in Angela's dreams and sketches. Hidalgo's new novel combines dreams, urban legends, "romantic realistic" sketches and tales, short fragments from the works of other writers, and straightforward narratives. But for all its affinity to the postmodern pastiche, its plot is the traditional one of the search, the quest. And for all its haunting, evanescent quality, it is curiously anchored in the contemporary Philippine scene, where basketball players and showbiz personalities dominate politics, young drug addicts rape their own classmates, and clerks peddle memorial plans to augment their meager wages, a world shot through with both beauty and danger, a world of miracle and poetry and inescapable violence.
650			_aDreams
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