A house of my own : stories from my life / Sandra Cisneros.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: "From the 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 beloved literary legend"--Front flap of jacket.
    • Content Notes:
      Introduction -- Hydra house -- No place like home -- Luis Omar Salinas -- Falling in love with Enamoramiento -- Marguerite Duras -- Huipiles -- Vivan los Muertos -- Straw into gold -- A tango for Astor -- Only daughter -- Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks -- My wicked wicked ways -- Who wants stories now -- La casa que canta -- Mercè Rodoreda -- The house on Mango Street's tenth birthday -- I can live sola and I love to work -- Tapicero's daughter -- Guadalupe the sex goddess -- ¡Que vivan los colores! -- Tenemos layaway, or, How I became an art collector -- An ofrenda for my father on Day of the Dead -- Un poquito de tu amor -- Eduardo Galeano -- Infinito botánica -- El pleito/The quarrel -- To Seville, with love -- A white flower -- Señor Cappuccino -- Natural daughter -- A girl called daydreamer -- A house of my own -- An ofrenda for my mother -- Resurrections -- Ten thousand -- The author reponds to your letter requesting my book be banned from the school library -- The girl who became a saint: Teresa Urrea -- Chavela Vargas: una mujer muy mujer -- Chocolate and donuts -- Akumal -- A borrowed house -- Epilogue: Mi casa es su casa -- Pilón: Infinito -- Resting place/Descanso.
    • Notes:
      1 4 5 16
    • ISBN:
      9780385351331 :
    • Accession Number:
      2015007520
    • Accession Number:
      907060041
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.969340