{"product_id":"joy-paperback-4","title":"Joy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngelo R. Lacuesta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAriston Letrero is a renaissance man: audio producer, insurance salesman, musician, composer, part-time fast food mascot, and an adulterer who quickly and quietly abandons his wife and son, Lucas, at the peak of his mottled career, for a new life in America with his lover Odette.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYears and years later, he sends an email to his son, Lucas, an advertising man who has been brought up on super robot cartoons, Catholic school truisms, and a diet of fast food and loneliness, and who has reconnected with his childhood sweetheart Dedes, who has made a post-annulment life for herself in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the 30-odd years in between is a story that sings songs and anthems of identity, relations, loneliness, and loss, and how they figure in the lives of contemporary Filipinos who are scattered across space and time, but who are also connected and separated at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoy\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of joy--lived forward, backward, sideways, and upside down, in lives and loves that are fragmented, separated, gathered, made virtual, and made real. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngelo R. Lacuesta\u003c\/b\u003e has won numerous awards for his writing, including three Philippine National Book Awards, the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award, the NVM Gonzalez Award, and several Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards and Philippines Graphic Awards. He has written several books, including five short story collections, two non-fiction books, and a collection of graphic stories. He is Editor-at-Large at \u003ci\u003eEsquire Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (Philippines) and is a member of the Board of the Philippine Centre of PEN International (Poets, Essayists, Novelists). He lives and works in Manila\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253269840121,"sku":"9789814882903","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cVdtbU5NWGd1RTUydVcvODlJUW84Zz09.webp?v=1768699892","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/joy-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}