Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - Softcover

Rodriguez, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553272934 ISBN 13: 9780553272932

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1983

Synopsis

"Hunger Of Memory" is the story of a 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 is 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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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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0553272934
• ISBN 13: 9780553272932
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224