Nelson is obsessed with avoiding work, long-term relationships and all other forms of responsibility. Sex, Nelson's other major obsession, is what brings him to the Philippines, having heard the archipelago's bawdy lore from a former mistress he had shared with his father. With dark humor and insight, Bacho explores the clash of American and Filipino culture, as Nelson soon finds himself pulled between Anita and Marta, two tango-dancing matriarchs, and embroiled in his own private heart of darkness. The resolution of this increasingly violent menage-a-trois takes place within the context of a talent contest, a civil war, a coronation and an exploding presidential candidate.
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The eponymous young antihero of Nelson's Run heads for the Philippines as a "sexual tourist" after his father is accidentally killed by the mistress the two men shared. There he slings propaganda for a crooked regime, then gets stuck in a guerrilla war and a weird sexual triangle with politically radical Marta and the wealthy, well-connected Anita. Though author Peter Bacho (Cebu, winner of an American Book Award) uses political and sexual satire to create some memorable scenes offering wild sendups of gender roles, colonialism and corruption along the way this slim novel feels rushed and never has an opportunity to come together as a whole.
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...Bacho takes us on a wild odyssey in Nelson's Run...in the lineage of Evelyn Waugh at his best. -- Judith Grossman--author of How Aliens Think
Nelson's Run...is damn sexy. It has a sexy cover...and a sexy story (a young man flies to the -- CHARLES MUDEDE
The Stranger Suggests From sexual picaresque to razor edged satirical satire, Peter Bacho takes us on a wild odyssey in -- Judith Grossman, author of How Aliens Think
Unsettling and unrelenting in the way it indicts all the parties involved, haunting precisely because even as satire, much of -- Leny Strobel, Filipino American Literature
Nelson's Run...is damn sexy. It has a sexy cover...and a sexy story (a young man flies to the -- CHARLES MUDEDE
The Stranger Suggests From sexual picaresque to razor edged satirical satire, Peter Bacho takes us on a wild odyssey in -- Judith Grossman, author of How Aliens Think
Unsettling and unrelenting in the way it indicts all the parties involved, haunting precisely because even as satire, much of -- Leny Strobel, Filipino American Literature
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Broad satire with a high body count,
By Ricardo Ramos (Daly City, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nelson's Run (Paperback)
Sort of a Filipino(-American) _Crying of Lot 49_, this brisk picaresque novel satirizes Filipino political life..., American slackerdom, and mothers' sexual domination of surrogate sons. Call it "brown humor" rather than "black humor," with a low-to-no-initiative protagonist and a series of strong, focused Filipinas vying for his Angloish body. The flippant narrative, which what a Filipino post-Freudian Jonathan Swift might serve, goes down easily, but is likely to cause heartburn if masticated.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderfully Disturbing,
This review is from: Nelson's Run (Paperback)
It's written as a satire, but a reader couched in Filipino-American history can't help but think that everything Bacho writes is possible. He successfully gets people to think about the complicated relationship of white-love that the "native" Filipinos and the Filipino diaspora share with white America. It's VERY much worth the read.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An engaging ride full of sharp edges and sudden turns,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nelson's Run (Paperback)
Nelson's Run by novelist Peter Bacho is a tongue-in-cheek satire about the protagonist Nelson, a man who, in his fervent desire to escape work or long-term relationships for the heady pleasures of hedonism, finds himself inexorably drawn between conflicting paths and two very attractive tango dancers on the war-stricken Philippine island of Samar. Sexy, funny, but also a darkly twisted work of compelling fiction, Nelson's Run is an engaging ride full of sharp edges and sudden turns.
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