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The House on Mango Street by Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street by Cisneros, Sandra
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"Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." --The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. "In English my name means hope," she says. "In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes--sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous--Cisneros's masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis's Main Street or Toni Morrison's Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one's story and of being proud of where you're from.
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/26/1994
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 6.94h x 5.36w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780679433354
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 20914 / House on Mango Street
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2008 pg. 107
School Library Journal 03/29/2024 pg. 1
About the Author
SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago's Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.