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Jessica Hagedorn
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Dream Jungle |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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320 |
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2003-09-29 |
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0670884588 |
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Viking Adult |
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1.06 pounds |
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5.82 x 8.58 x 1.08 inches |
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First Edition |
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Jessica Hagedorn has received enormous critical acclaim for her edgy, high-energy novels chronicling the clash and embrace of American and Filipino cultures. With "Dream Jungle," she breaks through to a new level of narrative daring and has written her most complex and accomplished novel to date.
"Dream Jungle" takes off from two seemingly unrelated events-the discovery of a lost Stone Age tribe in a remote mountainous area of the Philippines and the filming of an epic Vietnam War movie in the rain forest. But the "lost tribe" just might be a clever hoax masterminded by a brooding wealthy iconoclast-and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and egos.
At once a sensual and razor-sharp indictment of colonialism, "Dream Jungle" evokes the desperate beauty and rank corruption of the Philippines from the height of the Marcos era in the mid-1970s to the end of the twentieth century.
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