Best Filipino stories the NVM Gonzalez Awards, 2000-2005

"Here are seventeen of the best short stories in English over the first six years of the NVM Gonzalez Awards (2000 to 2005)... All these stories are, says Gregorio C. Brillantes in his splendid Preface, "astonishingly varied in vision, voice, mode, manner and consummation,... each a vivid...

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Other Authors: Abad, Gemino Henson 1939-, Brillantes, Gregorio C. 1932-
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Quezon City University of the Philippines Press c2007.
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505 0 |a Good intentions 101 : SY '72-73 / Menchu Aquino Sarmiento -- Dancers / Alfred A. Yuson -- Days of darkness, white nights / Charlson Ong -- Lavender / Socorro A. Villanueva -- The death of Fray Salvador Montano, conquistador of Negros / Rosario Cruz Lucero -- Fallout / Ma. L.M. Fres-Felix -- Intersection / April Timbol Yap -- We won't cry about this / Socorro A. Villanueva -- The man who sold dreams / Antonio A. Hidalgo -- Fireworks -- H.O. Santos -- Undercurrents / Janet Baclayon Villa -- The hero of snore tango / Ian Rosales Casocot -- Rest stop / Angelo R. Lacuesta -- Leather / Angelo R. Lacuesta -- Megastar / Arvin A. Mangohig -- At the ends of the hyphen / Alexis Abola -- Closopen / Janet Baclayon Villa -- Afterword: rising from the ash-covered loam / Menchu Aquino Sarmiento. 
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