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- Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
- About the Author: Richard Rodriguez has authored a "trilogy" on American public life and his private life--Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown--concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America.
- 224 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation -- from his past, his parents, his culture -- and so describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.Review Quotes
"Arresting ... Splendidly written intellectual autobiography."--Boston Globe "Superb autobiographical essay ... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example of the long labor of change: its costs, about which he is movingly frank, its loneliness, but also its triumph."--New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Richard Rodriguez has authored a "trilogy" on American public life and his private life--Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown--concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print. Most recently he wrote Darling, a meditation on the Abrahamic religions after 9/11.Dimensions (Overall): 6.8 Inches (H) x 4.1 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Richard Rodriguez
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 1983
TCIN: 88890798
UPC: 9780553272932
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-5718
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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