Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553382518)

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.

Author: Richard Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 0553382519
ISBN-13: 9780553382518
Publisher: Dial Press
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70908 / Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez