| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
PS 374 .W66 F69 1978 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14447 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Fox, George
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Amok :
- Remainder of title - a novel /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by George Fox
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Simon and Schuster,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1978.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 256 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - A novel set in Cagayan, Luzon three decades after World War II, with a bloodthirsty Japanese straggler running amok and killing at will with his samurai sword - continuing to delay the enemy as long as possible. The Philippine Constabulary, some Japanese veterans and American plantation owners try to get the Japanese straggler to stop his murders. Flashbacks to events during the war provide character backgrounds. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Literature and the war.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Cagayan (Luzon)
- Uncontrolled term - fiction
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese straggler
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