Dogeaters (34 page)
Special thanks to my friend and agent, Harold Schmidt, for believing in this book, and to my wonderful editor, Helena Franklin, for her fussing, caring, and attention to detail.
And to Luis Cabalquinto for his poem “The Dog-Eater,” which appeared in the
American Poetry Review
, Nov.–Dec. 1984:
salamat.
I am also grateful to Santiago Bose, Thulani Davis, Luis H. Francia, Ramon Hodel, Erlinda Cortes Brobston, and Renee Montagne. There are many other people I wish to thank, both here and in the Philippines, for their assistance on this project; life being what it is these days, I think it would be wiser to be discreet.
T
HIS IS A WORK
of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where the names of actual persons, living or dead, are used, the situations, incidents, and dialogue concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict any actual events or change the entirely fictional character of the work.
This book includes actual quotations from
The Philippines
by Jean Mallat (though the titles I have given them are my own), from the Associated Press, from a poem by Jose Rizal, and from a speech by President William McKinley. All other material presented as quotations from newspapers are fictional, as is
The Metro Manila Daily
itself.
Jessica Hagedorn is the author of
Toxicology
,
Dream Jungle
,
The Gangster Of Love
, and
Dogeaters
, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. She is also the author of
Danger and Beauty
, a collection of poetry and prose, and the editor of
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
. Her plays include
Most Wanted
, the Heaven Trilogy, and the stage adaptation of
Dogeaters
. Hagedorn recently edited
Manila Noir
, a crime fiction anthology, for Akashic’s acclaimed Noir series. She teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Long Island University–Brooklyn. For more information, visit
www.jessicahagedorn.net
.
All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1990 by Jessica Hagedorn
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