Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. An Autobiography

Rodriguez, Richard

ISBN 10: 0553231936 / ISBN 13: 9780553231939

Published by Bantam Books,, New York, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. An Autobiography
• Publisher: Bantam Books,, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553231936
• ISBN 13: 9780553231939
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed and Signed By Author

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Synopsis

A personal account of what it has cost the author, nonmonetarily, to be educated beyond his origins as the son of Mexican immigrants rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

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.