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050 _aPS 9993.H538
_b.H541 2001
100 _aHidalgo, Antonio A.
_937606
245 4 _aThe hilarious world of Nestor D :
_bshort stories /
_cAntonio A. Hidalgo.
264 _aQuezon City :
_bMilflores Publishing,
_c[2001];copyright 2001.
300 _a108 pages :
_billustrations
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
505 _aThe talking fighting cock -- The ultimate cocker -- The purest cock in the whole world -- The magical cocker -- Supernova, the invincible fighting cock -- The deadliest tari -- The sabungero who hated money -- Nestor's secret weapon -- King of the dwarfs -- Class struggle -- When they stole from Nestor -- The impossible dream.
520 _aThe twelve hilarious stories in this book revolve around the misadventures of an imaginative, intellectual, dedicated, wealthy, wacky, and ill-fated sabungero called Nestor Divinagracia. Obsessed with becoming the greatest cockfighter in the whole world, he constantly conjures up the most elaborate and complicated schemes to conquer the world of sabong. He invariably fails in his quixotic quest and quaffs the bitter brew of defeat again and again without flinching. In fact, he generously shares the brew with his two Sancho Panzas, Oscar and Abet, and his Dulcinea--his beautiful, half-Dutch, second wife, Katrina Vandenburg. Through side-splitting comedy and biting irony, Tony Hidalgo reflects the absurd elements of our social reality and plumbs the deeper intellectual, psychological and behavioral truths that are inherent in the Filipino human condition. These funny and insightful stories are among the most popular and widely read in the country today. They are offered as a complete series of interrelated stories for the first time in this book - the better to render the additional depth and meaning of the collection as a whole. (Source: http://milfloresonline.blogspot.com)
650 _aShort stories, Philippine (English)
_2sears
650 _aShort stories, Philippine (English)
_2sears
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942 _cIRC
999 _c85195
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