TY  - BOOK
T1  - Armor stories
A1  - Bengan, John
LA  - English
PP  - Quezon City
PB  - Bughaw
YR  - 2022
UL  - http://www.ds.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/Record/UP-1685523046126120748
AB  - Terror, longing, and defiance recur in these thirteen stories about people trying “to live happily every so often” despite the prevalence of summary executions, the megalomania of a once and future strongman, and the indifference of witnesses. In one story, a Death Squad recruit goes on his first day on the job. In another, a drug user joins a Miss Gay beauty pageant perhaps for the last time. Meanwhile, a vigilante mayor disguised as a taxi driver prowls the city at night.

Armor reintroduces, beyond the spin doctors and personality cults, a locality that recent events in the country have made more recognizable. Set mostly in Davao from the late ’90s to a not too distant time, this debut collection distills what turned out to be the beginnings of a larger catastrophe.
OP  - 224
CN  - PS 9993 B35 A76 2022
SN  - 9786214482092 (Softbound/Paperback)
KW  - Philippine fiction (English)
KW  - Drug abuse and crime : Fiction.
KW  - Historical fiction, Philippine (English)
KW  - Philippines : History : Fiction.
ER  -