Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories

Sandra Cisneros

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 3, 1992 - Fiction - 192 pages

A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

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It took several months to finish this, partly because I couldn't identify with the section where the narrator seems to be a young woman searching for her life in a lover. Wonderful imagery; in some ...

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A collection of stories about the lives of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans from the female perspective in the small border towns of Texas. I finished this book almost a year ago, and while I ...

Contents

• My Lucy friend Who Smells Lite Corn: 3
• Eleven: 6
• Salvador Late or Early: 10

About the author

SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Her classic, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation.

In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists. Her literary papers are preserved in Texas at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. 

Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories; Vintage Contemporaries
• Author: Sandra Cisneros
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992
• ISBN: 0679738568, 9780679738565
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Hispanic & Latino; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)