Book cover for Hunger of memory : an autobiography : the education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of memory : an autobiography : the education of Richard Rodriguez

Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN13: 9780553272932
Format: VOICEText
Description
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.
Publisher Bantam Books
ISBN10 0553272934
ISBN13 9780553272932
Number of Pages 224
File Size DL-80MB
Shelf Number MM058
Grade Range
Ages 20 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download, Voice Text