- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reprint (1. Oktober 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140159703
- ISBN-13: 978-0140159707
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,7 x 12,8 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.139.714 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Jessica Hagedorn received high praise for her debut novel, Dogeaters, which took place in Manila. Her second book shows that Dogeaters was no fluke. The Gangster of Love opens in Manila but the action quickly moves to San Francisco and then New York before turning full circle. Hagedorn's worlds are peopled with a maelstrom of jostling, exuberant characters. The focal point of this storm of humanity is Raquel (Rocky) Rivera. The arc of her journey from Manila to the United States and back will include a boyfriend named Elvis Chang (with whom she plays in a rock band called Gangsters of Love), a daughter, a flock of drag queens, and jobs as receptionist at an acupuncture clinic and waitress at a French-Vietnamese bistro. Original, exhilarating and electric, The Gangster of Love takes a fresh look at family and questions of race, culture and identity.
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After making a name for herself with her acclaimed first novel, Dogeaters (1990), Hagedorn turned to poetry, film, and plays before returning to fiction with this vivid, episodic tale about a young Filipino woman's adventures in America. Teenaged Raquel "Rocky" Rivera, her certifiable brother, Voltaire, and Milagros, their glamorous but chronically lonely mother, are en route from Manila to San Francisco when Jimi Hendrix, Rocky and Voltaire's hero, dies, a decadent demise that sets the fatalistic tone of this haunting, kaleidoscopic novel. Rocky sleepwalks through life until she falls in love with an ambitious guitar player named Elvis Chang, befriends an outrageous artist named Keiko, and starts writing songs. Soon she, Elvis, and a libidinous drummer called Sly form a band, The Gangster of Love, and move to New York. As Hagedorn tracks Rocky's growth as an artist and a woman, she deftly conjures the reckless ambience of that coked-up, rock-and-roll, everyone's-an-artist era, then ups the ante by describing the alienation Rocky and company experience as Asian Americans. Dramatic, poetically specific, and darkly humorous, this poignant tale features some truly unforgettable characters. Donna Seaman
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and is not really representative of the fil/am experience, though it does reflect my life a bit. jessica hagedorn is barely disguised as the protagonist who first comes to san francisco, then la and nyc and tries to make it as an artist. the only filipino thing about it is that the main character doesnt seem to be ashamed to wear the confusion and chaos of her nations character and history on her sleeve. most filipinos and filipino americans IMO are pretty straight-laced.
dogeaters at least provided exotic and pomo images for literary consumption by the white reading populace and self fetishizing filipinos. hagedorn tries to be a little more filipino with this novel but ends up not making sense to either filipinos or non filipinos.
the only reason this book gets 3 stars from me is because of the chapter in which the protagonist has the run in with a puerto rican, and they realize how they are related as colonial subjects in the united states. it is this complexity of shared histories of colonization amongst different peoples that filipinos, as former colonial subjects of the mother beast america, should be aware of.
other than that, this book has virtually no substance.
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This book was as confusing as hell. I don't know what this writer was going for. This writer is good at confusing her readers with useless information that the reader does not need to know. I highly recomend readers not to buy this book. This book was like a stroll through a maze on a foggy day. The one star is for the girl on the cover. I am serious. That was the only thing good about the book.
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This book hooks you immediately and rarely lulls. The female characters are fascinating, but the male characters seem 2-dimensional (although, this may not be unrealistic). The main character's best friend Keiko is one of the wildest, most interesting characters I've seen in print! It reads more like a poem, gritty and brilliant and chaotic, with the voice often changing from character to character, giving an even broader portrait of the dynamics at play. My only complaint was that the story seemed to wander, giving it an almost Kerouac-type feel, seeming more incidental than integral, more like a biography in poem than a novel. Overall, it was a great read which I devoured in two days, and I look forward to more of Ms Hagedorn's work.
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HARD TO READ BOOK
Sorry, but like her first novel, this book is difficult to read
Am 29. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
A synthesis of the Filipino American struggle
Jessica Hagedorn creates another honest, in your face, yet beautiful depiction of the Filipino immigrant experience. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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