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The Education Of Richard Rodriguez
Dial Press Trade Paperback
February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
224 pages
ISBN: 0553382519
EAN: 9780553382518
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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