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Legends and Adventures

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

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Description:"A new life is riskier than the old one as any tatterdemalion survivor will tell you," writes Carmen Guerrero Nakpil in "Legends & Adventures," referring to herself. Recounting her post WWII life, as a war widow, reporter, newsgal, editorial columnist, occasional public servant and indentured Marcos official, Guerrero Nakpil renders her personal history to the music of the time between 1946 and 1983. The legends involve Imelda Marcos, Gina Lollobrigida, Manansala, Magsaysay, Deng Shiao Ping, Khaddafy, Chino Roces, Ninoy Aquino, Yevtushenko and a ratful of others. The adventures, described with singular wit and reflectiveness, take place in newsrooms, nightclubs, communes, snow-covered mountaintops, derelict palaces and the new wonders of the world. "Legends & Adventures" is the sequel to the much admired first volume of the Guerrero Nakpil memoirs, "Myself, Elsewhere."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legends and Adventures. To get started finding Legends and Adventures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 217

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Circe Communications, Inc

Release: 2007

ISBN: 9719376015

Description: "A new life is riskier than the old one as any tatterdemalion survivor will tell you," writes Carmen Guerrero Nakpil in "Legends & Adventures," referring to herself. Recounting her post WWII life, as a war widow, reporter, newsgal, editorial columnist, occasional public servant and indentured Marcos official, Guerrero Nakpil renders her personal history to the music of the time between 1946 and 1983. The legends involve Imelda Marcos, Gina Lollobrigida, Manansala, Magsaysay, Deng Shiao Ping, Khaddafy, Chino Roces, Ninoy Aquino, Yevtushenko and a ratful of others. The adventures, described with singular wit and reflectiveness, take place in newsrooms, nightclubs, communes, snow-covered mountaintops, derelict palaces and the new wonders of the world. "Legends & Adventures" is the sequel to the much admired first volume of the Guerrero Nakpil memoirs, "Myself, Elsewhere."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legends and Adventures. To get started finding Legends and Adventures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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