Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage contemporaries edition.
Description: xii, 165 pages ; 21 cm.
From the author of the widely acclaimed The House on Mango Street comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
Series: Vintage contemporaries
Contents:
My Lucy friend who smells like corn -- Eleven -- Salvador late or early -- Mexican movies -- Barbie-Q -- Mericans -- Tepeyac -- One holy night -- My Tocaya -- Woman hollering creek -- The Marlboro man -- La fabulosa : a Texas operetta -- Remember the Alamo -- Never marry a Mexican -- Bread -- Eyes of Zapata -- Anguiano religious articles rosaries statues -- Little miracles, kept promises -- Los boxers -- There was a man, there was a woman -- Tin tan tan -- Bien pretty.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Short stories -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Short stories -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 960L
ISBN:
0679738568
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Cisneros | Southeast | Fiction | In |
"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991"--Title page verso.