Description
Title: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Author: Richard Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780553382518
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 224
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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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.
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