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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 47 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Rachel Coates. |
| Summary |
Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship. Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with their authors. For Primi, the nascent revolution means that writers are gathering more often, and with greater urgency, so that every poetry reading she attends presents a veritable "Justice League" of authors for her to choose among. As the Marcos dictatorship stands poised to topple, Primi remains true to her fantasy: that she, "a vagabond from history, a runaway from time," can be saved by sex, love, and books. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Fiction.
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Revolutions -- Fiction.
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Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Filipinos -- Fiction.
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Philippines -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Coates, Rachel, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781696607162 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696607167 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14609295 |
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