Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by the author on the first free endpaper. Stated 2nd printing. Edgewear, soiling, mild fraying, and a small closed tear to the dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Minor shelfwear to the cap and base of the book spine. Boards are sunned at the top. A memoir about the mental and cultural costs to a Latino immigrant in becoming assimilated in America by the author of 'Brown: The Last Discovery of America' and 'Days of Obligation'. Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Title: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography [SIGNED COPY]
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher, Boston
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879234180
ISBN 13: 9780879234188
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Printing: 2nd Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The original hardcover edition of the autobiography of Richard Rodriguez.

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" 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

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