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English
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"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the social role of women and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"...Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home--in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart."--Dust...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a dual-language edition.
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light...
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light...
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Español
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La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas --a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres-- es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá. Pocos libros de nuestra era han conmovido a tantos lectores.
The House on Mango Street tells the extraordinary story of Esperanza Cordero. Told through...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
101 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Dual-language edition.
Physical Desc
55, 57 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection--spanning nearly three decades, and including never-before-published...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 115 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. Seductive, earthy, at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant new collection of poetry celebrates the female aspects of love - from the reflective to the overtly erotic - in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction. These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional...
11) Hairs =: Pelitos
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : coll. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con docenas de poemas inéditos, 'Mujer sin vergüenza' es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento y hacia el reconociemiento de su derecho como mujer artista ..."--Cover page 4.
"Twenty-eight years have passed since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. Containing dozens...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2005
Edition
Unabridged Library ed.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (ca. 61 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Woman Hollering Creek: Mexican American women of San Antonio, Tex., muse on their loyalty to Mexico, their lovers and their sense of self-worth.
The house on Mango Street: A novel of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Her neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 480 pages 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
19) Camellia Street
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xx, 186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the 1940s and 1950s, Cecélia displays strength in the face of male brutality.
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve esteemed authors candidly discuss the crafting of their own remarkable short stories, selected by the editor not only for overall fineness and appeal, but also for the exemplary uses to which each work puts one of the following elements of fiction writing: character, plot, point of view/voice, setting, structure, and theme."--Jacket.
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