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Brown

The Last Discovery of America

by Richard Rodriguez

ISBN: 0142000795
ISBN-13: 9780142000793
Format: Paperback

Summary

In BROWN, Rodriguez explores the impact of Hispanics in the U.S. today, points out that while Hispanics become Americanized, the U.S. itself gets Latinized, and in effect argues for a rethinking of the national complexion. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002.

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"Elegant, controversial, and altogether memorable...."

   -- Kirkus

''BROWN continues in the method of the first two books [HUNGER OF MEMORY and DAYS OF OBLIGATION], drawing together chapters that resemble essays but are more like the individual voices in a fugue, connected by motifs and melodies that echo back and forth in patterns, through this book and through the rest of Rodriguez's work. The recurrent strands of his thought-family, religion, education, race, sex, California, America, Mexico-gain new resonance each time and stand, in the end, for the complexity of a whole greater than the sum of its parts."    -- Anthony Walton

   -- New York Times Book Review

"BROWN is a meditation on America's family secrets. It is a lyrical hymn on the tenebrous side of history, one not marked by triumphs or defeats but by entanglements born of eroticism and, sometimes, love. It is at once a homily on the dangers of puritanism in an impure world and the confession of an aging baby boomer who has given up trying to reconcile the contradictory elements of his American soul."

   -- Los Angeles Times

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Pages: 256

Publisher's Notes

The author of Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society. Reprint.

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