| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.4 P75 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14215 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 395204321 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - DS 686.4 P75
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Prising, Robin
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Manila, goodbye
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Robin Prising
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Boston :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Houghton-Mifflin,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1975.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [x], 207 p., [8] leaves of plates :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - A true story of boyhood that brings to life the elegant Far East of the thirties - and the sharply contrasting years of the Japanese occupation of Manila. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an adopted American boy in Manila during the war. Born in Canada, he was adopted by an English actress and wealthy American tobacco exporter based in the Philippines.
In this memoir, Prising recounts the spoiled lifestyle he was used to before the war; the sharp contrast brought by the coming of war, and the Japanese occupation. He and his parents were interned at Santo Tomas, but Prising, being only eight years old, was allowed to live off camp, away from the parents, with other children, under literal house arrest.
He was eventually returned to Santo Tomas where he endured short rations and internment camp life, until liberated in 1945. He was only twelve years old but mature beyond his years, and his parents were repatriated to the U.S. shortly after liberation; he thus said farewell to the Manila he knew. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Prising, Robin.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - Personal narratives.
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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