The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Condition Note

Great find. Mostly very good overall condition paperback. Pages are clean and bright with text that have no pen/pencil marks, notes, underlining or highlighting, except for a name written on the front inside cover and a few pages have a small amount of corner curling/creases and a small amount of crinkling/waviness on the bottom edges. Cover is clean and bright and may have a bit of scuffing/creasing on the front/back or along the edges. Tight spine. Ships fast and satisfaction guaranteed.

Product Description

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.