The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Product NameThe House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
ManufacturerRandom House
Product Number MPN0679734775
Retail Price $10.95
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TitleThe House on Mango Street, The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
ISBN0679734775
Author(s)Sandra Cisneros
Release Date1991-04-03
FormatPaperback
Num of Pages128
Num. of Items1
EAN9780679734772
Weight0.5 lbs.
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4 Star Rating  "Grerat Service"2009-08-30
- Reviewed By User: A23BQ393EDZAZE
The order was completed and sent veryyyyy fast! i received it within a coule days and thank you very much!
 
1 Star Rating  "House on Mediocre Street"2009-08-28
- Reviewed By icefalcon58
Sandra Cisneros would deserve an A + for this book---if she'd written it as a 7th grade English student. A worthwhile book by a seasoned writer, though? Meh.

"House on Mango Street" has, however, been absorbed into the canon of American literature, not on any artistic merits, but because of its gimmicks: vignette-style; little-represented cultural group; woman author. It kept appearing on reading lists my kids brought home, but when I flipped through it, nothing grabbed me. When my youngest son's much-admired English teacher gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up, though, I finally gave in and read it. (Which took about a minute out of my day.)

It was pretty lame.

The subject matter, in the hands of a more skillful writer, may have been interesting. Actually, in the hands of Cisneros, but with a really good editor, it may have been pretty good. As it is, I'm not only surprised it got published, but I am astonished it has been so well-received. This is the greatest contribution EVER by a Latina writer? A depressing possibility.

I hope teachers who consider this book for their students will look a little harder for more complex, challenging and well-written substitutes. All "Mango" does is reinforce the idea that "good writing" consists of nothing more than stringing a few words together to make sentences...plus a gimmick.
 
2 Star Rating  "Must be good for poetry loving adolescent girls"2009-08-22
- Reviewed By User: A133J430D8ZER4
I read this book as it was required summer reading for a local high school.

WHAT????

This book is a collection of short vignettes about a girl growing up in a Hispanic family. Perhaps this is of interest to SOMEBODY but not this middle aged man nor most teen boys. I felt like I was trapped in a chick book (not always bad), written by a poet (not always bad) celebrating diversity (not always good). The stories were short and the redeeming value was that there were so many partial pages that it was half as long as it looked. Cisneros has written poetry and this book has the feeling of poetry (not always good). I am sorry for the high school boys who were required to read it!!
 
5 Star Rating  "This book will always hold a place in my heart"2009-06-21
- Reviewed By User: A1QUJDRRL6UFNA
This book was assigned reading in my Junior English class, over 10 years ago. For some reson I couldn't put it down. I absolutely loved it. Even though my childhood was different than Esperanza's, I still felt that I could relate to some of the themes in the book. This book had a bigger emotional impact than any other book I read in high school. I love the style it is written in. The prose has such a poetic feel to it at times. I have read it again a few times since high school, and even thought it didn't have as strong an impact on me, I still enjoy it to this day.
 
1 Star Rating  "A book to be borrowed not bought"2009-04-22
- Reviewed By User: A3OHAZA8AZ277G
The House on Mango Street is dedicated to 'las mujeres'. However, stories of the life of women (and the main character, Esperanza) on Mango street are superfluously written, punctuated with goofy stream of consciousness narration and misplaced metaphors. Seems as if Cisneros uses her Latino heritage as an excuse to write a book and does not manage to bring any of her characters to life.
 
3 Star Rating  "A tale of its time"2009-04-02
- Reviewed By thebookcrate
If my son finds this book on his required reading list some day, I know exactly what his reaction will be: What the hey?!? He's never had the slightest interest in any children's book with a Caldecott or Newbery medallion on the cover. I doubt that his aversion to literary fiction will change as he moves into young adulthood.

Books like Mango Street are just so darn, well, literary. That's appealing to a great many adult readers -- I like YA fiction -- but not so to a child who wants some forward momentum in a book. This book reminds me of the children's picture book Olivia; an engaging main character but no real story.

Well, this book does have a story; the maturing of a young girl in a tough environment. I enjoyed the vignettes of Esperanza's day-to-day life in her Latino neighborhood. But as with many books school children are asked to read -- such as Because of Winn-Dixie -- the action is mostly in the protagonist's head.

It's hard to evaluate this book 25 years after it was written. You have to keep in mind how rare this kind of writing was back then. Young adult fiction wasn't set in gritty, ethnic neighborhoods. Ms. Cisneros's voice was, and is, unique. But today, as our inner cities continue to deteriorate, I wonder if this lyrical tale comes across as just too poetic about the deprivations of poverty and the psychological fallout from physical and sexual cruelty.

I see that another up-from-poverty story, The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition, also appears on reading lists in my son's school. I do wish he could choose stories that are more relevant to his life. In elementary school, everything was set in the backwoods. I guess in the upper grades, it will all be the inner city.
 
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