The House on Mango Street

Cisneros, Sandra

ISBN 10: 0739322796 ISBN 13: 9780739322796

Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2005

Synopsis

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. Read by Sandra Cisneros. Book available.

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Review:

" Sandra Cisneros is one of the most brillant of today's young writers. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful...rich with music and picture." --Gwendolyn Books
" Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." --Bebe Moore Campbell, "The New York Times Book Review"
" Marvelous...spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisneros's storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world." --"San Francisco Cronicle"
" A deeply moving novel...delightful and poignant.... 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. Her work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful...rich with music and picture." --Gwendolyn Books
"Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one." --Bebe Moore Campbell, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Marvelous...spare yet luminous. The subtle power of Cisneros's storytelling is evident. She communicates all the rapture and rage of growing up in a modern world." --"San Francisco Cronicle"
"A deeply moving novel...delightful and poignant.... Like the best of poetry, it opens the windows of the heart without a wasted word." --"Miami Herald"

From the Publisher:

Over three million copies sold worldwide, this is the classic first novel by the author of Caramelo

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0739322796
• ISBN 13: 9780739322796
• Binding: Audio CD