Full name: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Author: Richard Rodriguez Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Education Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780553382518 9780553272932 0553231936 0553272934

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. Similar books: Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall Let Me Finish by Roger Angell What Remains by Carole Radziwill Elsewhere by Richard Russo The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck Extreme by Sharon Osbourne The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende In Pieces by Sally Field Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Then Again by Diane Keaton Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner Our America by LeAlan Jones The Long Haul by Myles Horton Great Books by David Denby Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson