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| Item Call Number |
PS 9993 .O87 I6 2004 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16274 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9716914199
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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 - PS 9993
- Item number - .O87 I6 2006
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Ottiger, Lisa.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - In my absence
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Lisa Ottiger.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - iUniverse, Inc.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2004.
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Quezon City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Central Book Supply,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2006.
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| General Note |
- General note - Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Compilation of letters, vignettes, and prose and poetry by a granddaughter trying to reconstruct the life of a grandfather (William Harrington) she never knew, and the love story he and the author’s grandmother shared.
Bill Harrington was an American lawyer based in Manila, and Ruth, his wife, had been raised in Manila. Bill, a reserve US Navy officer, volunteered to join the armed forces in the defense of the Philippines; he served in Cavite, Bataan and Cebu, and became a prisoner of war (Bacolod; Davao; Cabanatuan, Bilibid). He died as a prisoner of war, probably on the Oryoku Maru. Ruth, on the other hand, was interned in Santo Tomas.
Ottiger tries to piece together their story, through letters from and about Bill, some research on the prisoners of war and hell ships, and adds her own thoughts about the Philippines and the war, written as poems and essays, as she discovered more about the lives of her grandparents.
This is an expansion of thesis originally written for an M.A. in English at the University of Hawaii. - 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 - War in literature.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - War stories.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Poetry.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Cavite
- Uncontrolled term - Cebu
- Uncontrolled term - hell ship Oryoku Maru
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - poetry
- Uncontrolled term - POW experiences
- Uncontrolled term - recovered personal accounts – American
- Uncontrolled term - Santo Tomas Internment Camp
- Uncontrolled term - tributes
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