Days of Obligation
By Richard Rodriguez
By Richard Rodriguez
Category: Biography & Memoir | Essays & Literary Collections
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$24.00
Nov 01, 1993 | ISBN 9780140096224
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Praise
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
“In it’s most powerful passages, Days of Obligation reveals the writer as a tightrope walker who balances pessimism and the defeat of predictable expectations against the discovery of the profoundly unanticipated.” – The New York Times
“Rodriguez’s moral and aesthetic imagination guarantees that this beautiful book will linger long after the polemics in the culture wars subside. ” – Kirkus Reviews
Table Of Contents
Days of ObligationIntroduction: My Parent’s Village
Chapter One: India
Chapter Two: Late Victorians
Chapter Three: Mexico’s Children
Chapter Four: In Athens Once
Chapter Five: The Missions
Chapter Six: The Head of Joaquin Murrieta
Chapter Seven: Sand
Chapter Eight: Asians
Chapter Nine: The Latin American Novel
Chapter Ten: Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years
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