Here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, "The House on Mango Street" has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics even as it depicts a new American landscape. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, "The House on Mango Street" tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. "The San Francisco Chronicle" has called "The House on Mango Street" "marvelous... spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world." It is an extraordinary achievement that will live on for years to come.

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo , a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek , a book of poetry Loose Woman , and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos . She lives in San Antonio, Texas. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Eden Theological Seminary Bookstore (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 356810
Title: The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Format/Binding: Trade paperback, glued binding
Book Condition: New
Quantity Available: 2
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0679734775
ISBN 13: 9780679734772
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1991
Pages: 144
Size: 5.1 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.34 po
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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