Parámetros
- 311 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration which finds Rocky moving from the counter-culture in 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant music scene in Manhattan of the 1980s. 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.
Compra de libros
The Gangster of Love, Jessica Hagedorn
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- The Gangster of Love
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Jessica Hagedorn
- Editorial
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0140159703
- ISBN13
- 9780140159707
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción contemporánea, EE.UU., Cultura y Sociedad, Asia, Nueva York, Filipinas
- Descripción
- Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration which finds Rocky moving from the counter-culture in 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant music scene in Manhattan of the 1980s. 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.