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Hoyt Street : an autobiography / Mary Helen Ponce.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.O586 Z467 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ponce, Mary Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ponce, Mary Helen--Homes and haunts--California--Los Angeles.
- Ponce, Mary Helen.
- Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican American women--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Mexican American women.
- Manners and customs.
- California--Los Angeles.
- California.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
- Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Ponce, Mary Helen--Childhood and youth.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- The time is the 1940s. Mary Helen Ponce, a little girl with big eyes, lives in a Mexican-American neighborhood in Pacoima, California. She schemes to earn dimes for candy, wonders why Dale Evans's hair looks so funny in the movies, longs for shiny patent leather shoes instead of clunky oxfords to match her Confirmation dress, savors the summer sun on her face during walnut-picking expeditions, and basks in the love of her family. Combining a child's freshness of vision with adult irony, Hoyt Street depicts growing up Mexican American as the norm, not as a sociological phenomenon. It will touch your heart and make you laugh out loud.
- ISBN:
- 0826314465
- OCLC:
- 27895044
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