TY - BOOK AU - Pomeroy,William J. TI - Trail of blame: stories of the Philippines, T2 - New World paperbacks AV - PZ 4. P7853PS 3566. O56 Tr 1971 U1 - 813/.5/4 PY - 1971///] CY - New York, NY PB - International Publishers, KW - Philippines KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction N1 - Man on a road --The apostate --The return --Old timer --Off-limits --Campaign --Trail of blame --Titok --The morgue --The coming of the strangers --A bus in the rain --My father and I --Before the coming of the night --The provider --Nina --The land and the carabao N2 - "This collection of stories evolved out of William J. Pomeroy's seventeen years in the Philippines. Most of them were written while he was serving a life sentence (commuted after ten years in prsion) for participation in the Huk liberation movement. Stories of men and women who are struggling to break out of the semi-feudal conditions of pverty, superstition and inequality which U.S. policy maintains to its profit; of guerrilla fighters and of tender love in the midst of war. Some are about Americans in the Philippines and their racist attitudes which serve as instruments of the neo-colonialism their contry has imposed on a nation. All are stories of particular interest for today that compel by their honesty." From the back of resource ER -