Format:
Book
Secondary title:
Vintage contemporaries series; Variation: Vintage contemporaries.
Author(s):
Cisneros, Sandra
Keyword(s):
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Short stories.
Literature, Modern -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Chicago.
Adolescent -- Chicago.
Bildungsromans.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Bildungsromane
Chicago (Ill.)
Fiction
Girls
Fiction
Mexican Americans
Fiction
Year:
1991
Pages:
x, 110 p.
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
22626478
Label:
Box 10
Notes:
21 cm.
The house on Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & girls -- My name -- Cathy queen of cats -- Our good day -- Laughter -- Gil's furniture bought & sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, his cousin & his other cousin -- Marin -- Those who don't -- There was an old woman she had so many children she didn't know what to do -- Alicia who sees mice -- Darius & the clouds -- And some more -- The family of little feet -- A rice sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The first job -- Papa who wakes up tired in the dark -- Born bad -- Elenita, cards, palm, water -- Geraldo no last name -- Edna's Ruthie -- The Earl of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four skinny trees -- No speak English -- Rafaela who drinks coconut & papaya juice on Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva writes poems -- Bums in the attic -- Beautiful & cruel -- A smart cookie -- What Sally said -- The monkey garden -- Red clowns -- Linoleum roses -- The three sisters -- Alicia & I talking on Edna's steps -- A house of my own -- Mango says goodbye sometimes.
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Sandra Cisneros.
Book
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Language:
English
Call number:
LC: PS3553.I78; Dewey: 813/.54; NLM: PS 3553 .I78
ISBN:
ISBN: 0679734775; 9780679734772; 9780072435177; 0072435178; 9781439500477; 1439500479 LCCN: 90-50593
Work type:
Fiction (fic); Juvenile (no specific ages) (jau)
Edition:
1st Vintage contemporaries
Abstract:
The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.