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My Wicked, Wicked Ways
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways Hardcover - 1992

by Cisneros, Sandra

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Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Review), Sandra Cisneros has firmly established herself as an author of electrifying talent. Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that reveal why her stories have been praised for their precision and musicality of language.

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New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First Hardcover edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Duodecimo, 103 pages,
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  • Title My Wicked, Wicked Ways
  • Author Cisneros, Sandra
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Hardcover edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Turtle Bay Books, New York
  • Date 1992
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 002300
  • ISBN 9780679418214 / 0679418210
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.61 x 0.59 in (20.78 x 14.25 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexican American women, Mexican American women - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92014852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.


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  • Publishers Weekly, 11/09/1992, Page 0

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.

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