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. rich with music and picture." -Gwendolyn BooksĪbout the Author Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class.
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Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word." - Miami Herald "Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brillant of today's young writers.
She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world." - San Francisco Cronicle "A deeply moving lightful and poignant. The subtle power of Cisneros's storytelling is evident. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." -Bebe Moore Campbell, The New York Times Book Review "Marvelous. and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. This funny, beautiful book will always be with us." -Maxine Hong Kingston "Cisneros draws on her rich heritage. This little book has made a great space for itself on the shelf of American literature." -Julia Alvarez " Afortunado! Lucky! Lucky the generation who grew up with Esperanza and The House on Mango Street. It is an extraordinary achievement that will live on for years to come. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world". The subtle power of Cisnero's storytelling is evident. The San Francisco Chronicle has called The House on Mango Street "marvelous. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. 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. 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. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." - The New York Times Book Reviewįrom the Back Cover In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its initial publication, and with a new introduction by the author, here is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best-selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
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Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery.
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters.īook Synopsis NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world-from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. About the Book In hardcover for the first time-on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication-the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
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