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HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an Autobiography.
by Rodriguez, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, price-clipped, some crinkling to front cover of dj)/good
- ISBN 10
- 0879234180
- ISBN 13
- 9780879234188
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: David R. Godine, Publisher, , (1982.). Hardcover -. Good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, price-clipped, some crinkling to front cover of dj). 2nd printing (same year as the first). The son of Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez began his schooling in Sacramento, California knowing only 50 words of English. This is his educational autobiography, the autobiography of a scholarship boy. 195 pp.
Synopsis
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.From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76336
- Title
- HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an Autobiography.
- Author
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in a good dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, price-clipped, some crinkling to front cover of dj)
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879234180
- ISBN 13
- 9780879234188
- Publisher
- David R. Godine, Publisher,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- (1982.)
- Keywords
- mexican immigrants, scholarship boy, sacramento,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin American Lit and History;
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