Nobody Gathers Seashells and Gun Shells Anymore by E. Vallado DaRoy

Out of print title.

Mrs. E. Vallado DaRoy was born and raised on the island of Corregidor until her early teens at the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941. She attended the University of the Philippines, Philippines Women's University, Ateneo de Manila University in that order, but earning her master's degree from PWU. She had published stories (her first story in the 'Philippine Free Press' in 1950 was included in Fresnosa's Honor Roll of Writers) even before she attended fiction cources under Prof. N.V.M. Gonzalez who encouraged her to continue writing, which she did against the gravity of teaching and domesticity. Many years later, he commented about Mrs. DaRoy's prize-winning story ("Go, Cast Squae Shadows," 'Weekly Nation Magazine', March 1966): "...(she) utilizes a subject so common that the story could have become banal had not the author 'seen' it the way she did. To be sure, Mrs. DaRoy's technique is not new, even in contemporary Filipino short story. But she uses it with newer insights than her predecessors. For trying in this direction and, what is important, succeeding so well, she deserves the attention of many readers." A year later, in an article N.V.M. Gonzalez wrote about outstanding writers appearing in 'Weekly Nation,' he said: "Vallado DaRoy's work is, in this group, on of the most interesting. Her world is familiar enough; it is perhaps a dreamland of some kind to many. She has found occasional excursions into cocktails people's territory. Naturally, her sense of story have been fully employed. With a bit more edge, and a bit more time to keep the knife-scalpel clean, Mrs. DaRoy should be giving us more elaborate and weightier material than she has so far produced."

Paperback
Publisher: New Day Publishers, 1981
Language: English
ISBN: 978-9992058329