Brown: The Last Discovery of America - Hardcover

Rodriguez, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670030430 ISBN 13: 9780670030439

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2002

Synopsis

The author of Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"The recurrent strands of his thought--family, education, race, sex, California, America, Mexico--gain a new resonance each time and stand, in the end, for the complexity of a whole greater than the sum of its parts." --The New York Times Book Review"Brown is an elegant, nuanced plea for the individual as the primary force in American life.... But as admirable as it is in its vision, Brown is more intriguing for it honesty about the author's desires and frustrations." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The recurrent strands of his thought family, education, race, sex, California, America, Mexico gain a new resonance each time and stand, in the end, for the complexity of a whole greater than the sum of its parts." The New York Times Book Review"Brown is an elegant, nuanced plea for the individual as the primary force in American life.... But as admirable as it is in its vision, Brown is more intriguing for it honesty about the author's desires and frustrations." San Francisco Chronicle

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About the Author:

Richard Rodriguez works as an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and is a contributing editor for Harper's magazine and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670030430
• ISBN 13: 9780670030439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232