{"product_id":"hunger-of-memory-the-education-of-richard-rodriguez-9781567927214","title":"Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Superb.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a \"minority student\" pays the cost of social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation from his past, his parents, his culture. Exquisitely written, poignant and powerful, unsettling, and controversial, \u003ci\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is both a profound study of the importance of language and an intimate portrait of a Mexican-American boy struggling to become a man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty years ago, readers met the extraordinary writer Richard Rodriguez through the story of his own education. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e traces the journey of a young boy, the son of Mexican immigrants, who began school in California knowing just fifty words of English but concluded his university studies in the lonely grandeur of the British Museum. In between, he fought a dramatic struggle between his public and private self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA longtime resident of San Francisco, and an ardent opponent of easy labels and limited self-conceptions, Rodriguez describes himself as a \"queer Catholic Indian Spaniard at home in a temperate Chinese city in a fading blond state in a post-Protestant nation.\" Resisting the easy way of following received dogmatic and conventional thought, Rodriguez has encountered kneejerk hostility for his provocative positions on issues such as affirmative action and bilingual education. But the extraordinary clarity of his iconoclastic writing--the surprising twists in his thinking, the view of public policy as it limits individual lives, and the story he tells of an American education--have made this book endure for four decades and counting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes an introduction by Phillip Lopate and an afterword by Richard Rodriguez. Still as provocative as the year it was first published, \u003ci\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is both a profound meditation on the price of education the working class must pay for its great benefit and a poetic self-portrait of a \"scholarship boy.\" Any reader moved by the power of words, including their power to change lives, needs to discover--or re-discover--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRodriguez, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e, a master of the personal essay, has authored three books of intensely private memory woven with considerations of the great public issues of our time. He describes \u003ci\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDays of Obligation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e as a trilogy on class, ethnicity, and race, respectively. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eDarling: A Spiritual Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e. Rodriquez's books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award. His television essays on American life for The PBS NewsHour were recognized with a Peabody Award. He also has written and hosted documentaries on California and Mexico for U.S. and British television. He was a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Rodriguez has lived most of his life in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLopate, Phillip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, novelist, and poet. He is a central figure in the revival of the American essay, and his book \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Personal Essay\u003c\/i\u003e is considered a classic. He has edited numerous anthologies, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Glorious American Essay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a professor of nonfiction at Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50512364011794,"sku":"9781567927214","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ccba1357-ac49-474a-b81d-5cf977367563.jpg?v=1748606466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hunger-of-memory-the-education-of-richard-rodriguez-9781567927214","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}