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Dream Jungle Hardcover – September 29, 2003

by Jessica Hagedorn (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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The dual tales of the discovery of a lost Stone Age tribe in remote Philippines, later discovered to be a possible hoax orchestrated by a wealthy iconoclast, and the making of a Vietnam War movie, overshadowed by its cast and crew's self-destructive behavior, intersect in unexpected ways. 25,000 first printing.
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    September 29, 2003
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    5.84 x 1.13 x 8.56 inches
  6. ISBN-10
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  7. ISBN-13
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Hagedorn continues her brilliant and mordant inquiry into the tricky relationship between the Philippines and the U.S. in her mesmerizing third novel, her best yet. In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, she fictionalizes the same infamous chapter in modern Filipino history chronicled by Robin Hemley in Inventing Eden [BKL My 1 03], the alleged 1970s discovery of a lost Stone Age tribe by a wealthy, well-connected, and untrustworthy playboy. Hagedorn portrays her self-serving and unreliable champion of indigenous peoples, Zamora Lopez de Legazpi, through the skeptical eyes of several intriguing characters, especially those of Lina, the beautiful young daughter of Zamora's long-suffering cook, whose life intersects with Paz Marlowe's, a journalist of mixed heritage, when they both end up on the jungle set of a risky Hollywood movie, Napalm Sunset, a shrewd take-off on Apocalypse Now. Without once letting up on this electrifying tale's subversive suspense, rich sensuality, emotional precision, and searing satirical humor, Hagedorn performs great feats of social critique by asking what is primitive and what is civilized, tracking the fallout from the Spanish and American occupations of this island nation and illuminating the link between storytelling, image, and power. Whoever controls the discourse and the cameras, rules. Donna Seaman
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Jessica Hagedorn is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, poet, multimedia artist, and screen- writer. Born and raised in the Philippines, she moved to the United States in her teens.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Viking
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 29, 2003
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670884588
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670884582
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.84 x 1.13 x 8.56 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #5,691,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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3.8 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book's characters interesting and appreciate its narrative flow, with one review noting how it combines two separate events. However, the readability receives mixed feedback, with several customers saying it's not the best read.

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Customers appreciate the narrative flow of the book, with one mentioning its combined structure of two separate events and another noting its political intrigue.

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  • Pinoy Boy
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Wild Ride
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2004
    Format: Hardcover
    What a ride. In short, it was a rush to read Dream Jungle. The characters are fascinating and the environment and situations these people are in this story are as equally compelling. I can't even begin to describe the book because the characters and plot lines are so layered and complex. It is woven tightly though and in the end, everything makes perfect sense. Jessica Hagedorn is one of the premiere Filipina American writers around--thank you for consistently producing outstanding work!
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  • BelleMacabre
    3.0 out of 5 stars Almost good
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2010
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    Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle is a novel written with close detail to language. She uses multiple language, dialects and styles depending on the character's POV. In the midst of the beautiful language is a character with a penchant for saying "nevertheless," which changes in gravity as she ages. Sometimes the writing is absolutely beautiful and at other times it seems limp and lifeless. The tangle of plots and subplots surrounding a myriad of characters indeed makes each scene a dream within a small clearing in the jungle of the Philippines, the world, life.

    Overall, I find it fascinating the novel is a combined narrative of two separate events, both inspired by true events: the discovery of a primitive tribe in the rain forest, later to be denounced as a hoax, and the setting of an American war movie in the midst of an actual war zone. I would love to give it more stars but for all the interesting characters and situations presented, it fails to fulfill.

    I read this for grad school with a mentee group. Everyone else had a really hard time getting through the beginning. We all got sucked up at the same point and then the second half, we lost interest. Scenes seemed to be missing, some things were really uncharacteristic and overall the tone seemed to belong to a different novel.
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  • K. Mcivor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dream Jungle
    Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2007
    Format: Paperback
    Loved this book. One of my new favorites. Beautiful language. Well connected and intertwined stories. Loved it!!
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  • Linda Linguvic
    2.0 out of 5 stars Just too disjointed and lacking narrative flow.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2005
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    In this novel set in the Philippines in the 1970s we first meet Zamora, a wealthy Spanish landowner, as he helicopters to a remote area and discovers a small band of people who are still living the stone age. His study of this group of people seem to be his hobby and his passion.

    We also meet a young girl who is a servant in his home as well as his troubled German wife who soon grows weary of her unhappy life. There's some political intrigue and some interesting characters and the story had a good chance of holding my interest. Alas, though, the author left too many connecting details out to give it a coherent narrative flow and although I continued reading, the plot never quite hung together. When I finished the book I still wasn't sure what it was about although it raised the questions that perhaps there wasn't a stone age tribe at all, but just a plot on the part of the corrupt government to give Zamora access to areas which would be politically advantageous to the dictator. If this doesn't make sense to you, it doesn't make sense to me either.

    Add to this a Hollywood film crew that has come into the town to make a movie about the Vietnam War. This section of the book was probably based on the filming of "Apocalypse Now" This part seemed to flow along well until it, too, lapsed into postmodernism and left more unanswered questions.

    There were some parts of the book that were extremely well done. One was the voice of the servant girl character. However, this one character was not enough to save this book from being hard to follow. On the whole, in spite of some good descriptions of the locale, Dream Jungle was too disjointed for me to recommend.
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  • Trish Smyth
    4.0 out of 5 stars Unflinching dissection of past and present colonialism
    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2021
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    This is an incredibly ambitious book that combines historical fact and fiction. It examines power from many angles: colonial power, power within the family, power within relationships. If you know the story of Apocalypse Now before reading this, it will add a whole new dimension to your reading. I ultimately gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because the head hopping can be jarring and there was one plot line I didn’t quite care about as much as the others, but... this book had intricately woven characters and plots and did an outstanding job of tying old-world colonization to modern colonization.

    Jessica Hagedorn should be more famous, this is possibly the best “Hollywood” book I’ve read. Really well done, I will be processing this book for a long time to come.
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  • Carla Smith
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not the best read.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2020
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    Not the best read.
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  • L. A. Vitale
    4.0 out of 5 stars I'm a Jessica Hagedorn Fan!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    This is the 3rd book I've read by Jessica Hagedorn. Her writing is amazing!

    The characters in Dream Jungle are well developed... The subject matter and themes discussed are also well written and developed and edgy. Dream Jungle is a fun, fast, gritty page turner! Once you begin reading this novel it is difficult to put down as you want to find out what happens next.
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  • Briana Taylor
    1.0 out of 5 stars Poory written
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2010
    Format: Paperback
    I read everything with words on it, this book was hard to read, lacked any kind of flow , and had no real plot. I was just so disappointed. Amateurs will feel accomplished if they read this because they will think it was a hard read and they got through it, avid readers will know it was just a bad book.
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