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.
- ISBN10 0553272934
- ISBN13 9780553272932
- Publish Date 1 January 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 224
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780553272932