Hunger of Memory
The Education of Richard Rodriguez
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1999
Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553272932 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553272934 |
| Author: | Richard Rodriguez |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 106mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“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
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.
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