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

From the Publisher

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.

"Arresting...Splendidly written intellectual autobiography." -- Boston Globe

"Superb autobiographical essay... Mr. Rodriguez offers himself as an example if 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