Hunger of Memory

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

  • Format: Paperback | 224 pages
  • Dimensions: 106 x 174 x 15mm | 113g
  • Publication date: 01 Feb 1990
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
  • Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: New York, United States
  • Language: English
  • Edition Statement: Reprint
  • ISBN10: 0553272934
  • ISBN13: 9780553272932
  • Bestsellers rank: 338,880

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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