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The house on Mango Street

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cisneros, Sandra
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Edition:	1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Series:	Vintage contemporaries
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction. Girls > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
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Summary:	For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
Physical Description:	x, 110 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0679734775 067943335X :
Author Notes:	Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 20, 1954. She received a B.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976 and a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1978. She has worked as a college recruiter, an arts administrator, a teacher to high school dropouts, and a poet. She has also visited numerous colleges around the country as a visiting writer. She has written numerous books including The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Loose Woman, Have You Seen Marie?, and A House of My Own: Stories from My Life. She has received numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. (Bowker Author Biography)