Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Rodriguez Richard
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Rodriguez Richard "Superb."--The New York TimesThe 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a "minority student" pays the cost of social…
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Rodriguez Richard
"Superb."--The New York TimesThe 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a "minority student" pays the cost of social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation from his past, his parents, his culture. Hunger of Memory traces the journey of a young boy, the son of Mexican immigrants, who began school in California knowing just fifty words of English but concluded his university studies in the lonely grandeur of the British Museum. Exquisitely written, poignant and powerful, unsettling, and controversial, Hunger of Memory is both a profound study of the importance of language and an intimate portrait of a Mexican-American boy struggling to become a man.Forty years ago, readers met the extraordinary writer Richard Rodriguez through the story of his own education.
In between, he fought a dramatic struggle