- Biography, Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers, Filipino Americans, Social life and customs
A Filipino exposes the hardships his countrymen experienced as California migrant workers before World War II.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Carlos Bulosan
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company, Sonic Books, University of Washington Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780974348537
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First sentence
“I WAS the first to see him coming slowly through the tall grass in the dry bottom of the river.”
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