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Hunger of Memory

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

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Feb 03, 2004 | ISBN 9780553382518

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Jan 01, 1983 | ISBN 9780553272932

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Feb 03, 2004 | ISBN 9780553898835

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    About Hunger of Memory

    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.

    About Hunger of Memory

    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.

    About Hunger of Memory

    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.

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    About Richard Rodriguez

    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… More about Richard Rodriguez

    About Richard Rodriguez

    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… More about Richard Rodriguez

    About Richard Rodriguez

    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… More about Richard Rodriguez

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Dial Press Trade Paperback
    Feb 03, 2004 | 224 Pages | 5 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780553382518

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Bantam
    Jan 01, 1983 | 224 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553272932

    Category: Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Bantam
    Feb 03, 2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780553898835

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    Praise

    “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

    Awards

    Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WINNER 1983

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