The Gangster of Love

Name: The Gangster of Love
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
SKU: 9780140159707-V
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By Jessica Hagedorn

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“The Gangster of Love is elegant and smart, deftly capturing the pain of leaving a country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one.” —The New York Times Book Review From celebrated novelist Jessica Hagedorn, an electrifying novel about a Filipino-American family navigating a culture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene. The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky's haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amidst the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 322
Release Date:: 1997-10-30
Publication Date:: 1997-10-01
Publisher:: Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0140159703
ISBN13:: 9780140159707
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:: 18
Maximum Reading Age:: 99
Weight:: 342 g
Height:: 129 cm
Width:: 197 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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