Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - Softcover

Rodriguez, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553382519 ISBN 13: 9780553382518

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

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.

From the Paperback edition.

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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."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"

"From the Paperback edition."

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"

"From the Paperback edition.""

"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

From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Richard Rodriguez is an editor at Pacific News Service, and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and The New Republic.

Richard received a 1997 George Foster Peabody Award for his NewsHour Essays on American life. The Peabody Award is designed to recognize "outstanding achievement in broadcast and cable," and is one of television's highest honors.

Rodriguez's awards for Hunger of Memory include the The Christopher Prize for Autobiography; The Gold Metal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Anisfeld-Wolf Prize for Civil Rights. He was awarded the Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the International Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council of California.

Rodriguez's autobiographical triology about American public life includes Days of Obligation An Argument with My Father (1992) and Brown The Last Discovery of America (2002). Rodriguez lives in San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0553382519
• ISBN 13: 9780553382518
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224