Hunger of Memory - the education of richard rodriguez
by rodriguez, richard
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- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0553272934
- ISBN 13
- 9780553272932
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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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
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1433500
- Title
- Hunger of Memory - the education of richard rodriguez
- Author
- rodriguez, richard
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553272934
- ISBN 13
- 9780553272932
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 1, 1983
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