| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
PN 5426 .M4 K56 2013 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17860 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789715390507 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - PN 5426 .M4
- Item number - K56 2013
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Kintanar-Alburo, Erlinda,
- Relator term - author.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Romancing with words :
- Remainder of title - the life and works of Greg M. Mercado, 1919-1967 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Erlinda Kintanar-Alburo
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Cebu CIty, Philippines :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - University of San Carlos Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2013.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - viii, 170 pages ;
- Dimensions - 23 cm
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
- Media type term - unmediated
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| Carrier Type |
- Carrier type term - volume
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-73).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Schooling and a Tale of Two Brothers -- Forging a Friendship -- Popularizing American Culture -- Writing Fiction -- Radio in Cebu -- Swinging It: Battlefield to Enemy Press to Battlefield -- With the Rough Riders -- Working with USIS -- Freedom Fighter to City Hall -- The Cebu Press and the Club -- Finding a Niche in Radio -- Heyday of Radio -- From Radio to Film, From English to Cebuano -- Surviving Greg -- Words on Greg -- Appendix: Mercado Family Tree -- SHORT STORIES: The Awakening -- Lilacs in the Rain -- Shadow on my Land -- Dark Waters -- The Last Ditch -- ARTICLES: The Sinking of "SS Corregidor" -- Legion of the Damned -- They Called It "Alcatraz": The Story of Cebu's Dread Guerilla Prison -- The Capture of Admiral Koga -- An Ex-Private Recalls: The Fall of Mindanao -- Cebu City -- Selections "From the Notebook of Greg M. Mercado," The Republic News: On various topics (1962) -- On the Spanish contact (1963-1965)
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "The historical developments in Cebu right before and after the war will provide a broad background for the specific experiences of a man whose life reflects his times. Such times were fertile ground for developing writing in both creative and journalistic fields. The selected writings by Greg Mercado, collected under the section Reader, that follow the first section on his life, are basic texts that show his development from fiction writer to journalist to media man..."
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| Language Note |
- Language note - In English.
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Mercado, Greg M.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1919-1967.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Social life and customs
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - 20th century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Philippine literature (English)
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