Research Catalog

Title

Scent of apples : a collection of stories / Bienvenido N. Santos ; foreword by Jessica Hagedorn ; introduction by Allan Punzalan Isaac.

Author

Santos, Bienvenido N.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hagedorn, Jessica
• Isaac, Allan Punzalan

Description

xlv, 178 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

This collection of sixteen stories bring the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Classics of Asian American literature

Uniform Title

Classics of Asian American literature.

Subject

Filipino Americans > Fiction

Genre/Form

• American fiction – Filipino American authors.
• Short stories, American – 20th century.
• Fiction
• Short stories, American
• Fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : my lost country / by Jessica Hagedorn -- Introduction to the 2015 edition : footnote to memory / by Allan Punzalan Isaac -- Introduction to the 1979 edition / by Leonard Casper -- Preface to the 1979 edition -- Immigration blues -- Scent of apples -- And beyond, more walls -- The hurt men -- Manila house -- A peculiar rustling -- Nightclub -- Of other deaths -- Lonely in the autumn evening -- The door -- For these ruins -- Letter : the faraway summer -- The day the dancers came -- The contender -- Quicker with arrows -- Footnote to a laundry list.

ISBN

• 9780295995113
• 0295995114

LCCN

^^2015018740

OCLC

• 907447774
• SCSB-11664036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library