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Product Description: All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O...read more
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9780299301941 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 11, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O.
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9780743287661 | Atria Books, April 3, 2007, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Four young women struggle with violence and poverty in East L.
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9781416588344 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, October 21, 2008), cover price $18.00
In the heart of a 1960s East Los Angeles neighborhood in the path of a new freeway, a colorful group of inhabitants--a young deaf girl who becomes the neighborhood archivist, a female gang member, a brilliant but troubled young man, and a saintly woman who believes in the power of faith--spend their tenacious and triumphant lives in the midst of urban blight. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780525939535 | E P Dutton, February 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the heart of a 1960s East Los Angeles neighborhood in the path of a new freeway, a colorful group of inhabitants--a young deaf girl who becomes the neighborhood archivist, a female gang member, a brilliant but troubled young man, and a saintly woman who believes in the power of faith--spend their tenacious and triumphant lives in the midst of urban blight.
Product Description: This provocative combination of original poetry, prose, criticism, and visual art documents the continuing growth of literature by and about Chicanas. Through innovative use of language and images, the artists represented here explore female sexuality, economic and social injustice, gender roles, and the contributions of critical theory...read more
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9780826317124 | Rev sub edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This provocative combination of original poetry, prose, criticism, and visual art documents the continuing growth of literature by and about Chicanas.
Hardcover:
9780525939498 | E P Dutton, April 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Desperate to escape the despair, hopelessness, and hardship of the migrant-workers' existence, Estrella, a young Mexican-American migrant worker, fights back against a system that will do almost anything to keep her down
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9780452273870 | Plume, April 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As a second-class Mexican-American citizen laboring under dangerous conditions in America's fields, Estrella learns the values of life and discovers ways to defy repression and the hopelessness of her situation.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780453009249 | Penguin/Highbridge, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Desperate to escape the despair, hopelessness, and hardship of the migrant workers' existence, Estrella, a young Mexican-American, fights back against a system that will do almost anything to keep her down.
Product Description: Fiction. Since 1982 Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes have been instrumental in bringing together the most salient artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, as well as literary and film critics in the field of Chicana Studies at the University of California at Irvine...read more
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9780943219103 | Third Women Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fiction.
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9781558851382 | 2 sub edition (Arte Publico Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $11.95
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9780934770859 | Arte Publico Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $11.00
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