{"product_id":"the-house-on-mango-street-introduction-by-john-phillip-santos-hardcover","title":"The House on Mango Street: Introduction by John Phillip Santos - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Cisneros\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Phillip Santos\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros's beloved coming-of-age novel about a young girl growing up in Chicago, with a new introduction by John Phillip Santos - Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world--from the winner of the 2019 PEN\/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold 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 \u003ci\u003eMain Street\u003c\/i\u003e or Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eSula, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSANDRA CISNEROS\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her awards include NEA Fellowships in poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN\/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, the National Medal of Arts, the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. A citizen of the United States and Mexico, Cisneros lives in San Miguel de Allende. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN PHILLIP SANTOS\u003c\/b\u003e, born in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar. His awards include the Academy of American Poets' Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, The New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eSan Antonio Express-News\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.19 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764993949984,"sku":"9781101908464","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/580a5828181a2c58a92fe270bc1228a0.webp?v=1780259789","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-house-on-mango-street-introduction-by-john-phillip-santos-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}