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    Days of Obligation

    An Argument with My Mexican Father

    Author Richard Rodriguez
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Nov 01, 1993 | 256 Pages | 9780140096224
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    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.
    Days of ObligationIntroduction: My Parent's Village

    Chapter One: India

    Chapter Two: Late Victorians

    Chapter Three: Mexico's Children

    Chapter Four: In Athens Once

    Chapter Five: The Missions

    Chapter Six: The Head of Joaquin Murrieta

    Chapter Seven: Sand

    Chapter Eight: Asians

    Chapter Nine: The Latin American Novel

    Chapter Ten: Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years

    Richard Rodriguez has authored a “trilogy” on American public life and his private life—Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown—concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print. Most recently he wrote Darling, a meditation on the Abrahamic religions after 9/11. View titles by Richard Rodriguez
    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

    "In it's most powerful passages, Days of Obligation reveals the writer as a tightrope walker who balances pessimism and the defeat of predictable expectations against the discovery of the profoundly unanticipated." - The New York Times

    "Rodriguez's moral and aesthetic imagination guarantees that this beautiful book will linger long after the polemics in the culture wars subside. " - Kirkus Reviews

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    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.

    Table of Contents

    Days of ObligationIntroduction: My Parent's Village

    Chapter One: India

    Chapter Two: Late Victorians

    Chapter Three: Mexico's Children

    Chapter Four: In Athens Once

    Chapter Five: The Missions

    Chapter Six: The Head of Joaquin Murrieta

    Chapter Seven: Sand

    Chapter Eight: Asians

    Chapter Nine: The Latin American Novel

    Chapter Ten: Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years

    Author

    Richard Rodriguez has authored a “trilogy” on American public life and his private life—Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown—concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print. Most recently he wrote Darling, a meditation on the Abrahamic religions after 9/11. View titles by Richard Rodriguez

    Praise

    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

    "In it's most powerful passages, Days of Obligation reveals the writer as a tightrope walker who balances pessimism and the defeat of predictable expectations against the discovery of the profoundly unanticipated." - The New York Times

    "Rodriguez's moral and aesthetic imagination guarantees that this beautiful book will linger long after the polemics in the culture wars subside. " - Kirkus Reviews

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