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Dark blue suit and other stories
- Title
- Dark blue suit and other stories / Peter Bacho.
- Author
- Bacho, Peter.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3552.A2573 D3 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 149 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, Dark Blue Suit depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers, the Manong generation who arrived on the Pacific Coast during the 1920s and 1930s, and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories - their landmarks, activities, settings, and events - are grounded in historical fact.
- The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman, his American-born son Buddy, and many others who age and change in ironic counterpoint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society.
- We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college. The conclusion builds to a quiet power that is essentially elegiac; an era closes, but the voices of the older generation are shouldered by the younger, to keep the history, to retell the stories, and to pay homage.
- Alternative Title
- Dark blue suit
- Subject
- Contents
- Dark Blue Suit -- Rico -- The Second Room -- August 1968 -- Home -- A Life Well Lived -- The Wedding -- A Manong's Heart -- Stephie -- A Matter of Faith -- Dancer -- A Family Gathering.
- ISBN
- 0295976640 (alk. paper)
- 0295976373 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97024806
- OCLC
- ocm37011414
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries