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Books : The House on Mango Street
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List Price: $10.95Amazon.com's Price: $8.76 You Save: $2.19 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679734772
ISBN: 0679734775
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: April 03, 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 03, 1991
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 1593
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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.
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 rundown 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.
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i honestly don't know what the hype is about this book. i just finished reading this for my high school english class and i must say, it was horrible and discusting. the general story is about a mexican family of eight moving into a crumby house. the wholoe book is a compilation of short stories with one of the daughters as a narrator. each story is on average two pages long and either contains the theme of sexism or having a horrible life. every story is either extremely depressing, or contains ... Read More
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Poignant, poetic, and refreshingly sincere, I liken this book to To Kill A Mockingbird sometimes, in that the child narrator is able to paint vibrant pictures of racism, sexism, abuse, prejudice, poverty, loneliness, cruelty, justice, maturation, and love with subtle (and often comical) strokes. Cisneros remains one of my favorite authors--in no small part to this book, which inspired me to become a writer and to aim somewhere near her standard of storytelling...
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" In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many words. It means sadness. It means waiting."
Esperanza has always lived in places she feels like she doesn't belong. She wants her own yard, no breaking pipes, and no landlords getting mad because of the noise level. She wants a house to herself.
The little red house on Mango Street isn't exactly what she hoped for. No sharing yards, no landlords, but the house is run down and the neighborhood is faced with poverty and violence. ... Read More
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" In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many words. It means sadness. It means waiting."
Esperanza has always lived in places she feels like she doesn't belong. She wants her own yard, no breaking pipes, and no landlords getting mad because of the noise level. She wants a house to herself.
The little red house on Mango Street isn't exactly what she hoped for. No sharing yards, no landlords, but the house is run down and the neighborhood is faced with poverty and violence. ... Read More
Rating: -
" In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many words. It means sadness. It means waiting."
Esperanza has always lived in places she feels like she doesn't belong. She wants her own yard, no breaking pipes, and no landlords getting mad because of the noise level. She wants a house to herself.
The little red house on Mango Street isn't exactly what she hoped for. No sharing yards, no landlords, but the house is run down and the neighborhood is faced with poverty and violence. ... Read More
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