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August 2, 2002

An Angry Young Man Grows Older

By MICHAEL DEPP

Richard Rodriguez, reluctant iconoclast, meets the reader on the cover of his latest book.

Twenty years ago, readers were forced to confront his haunted, melancholic face before entering his autobiography Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. The cover photo presaged much of the anger and solipsism found within his life story: A prodigious scholar on the cusp of finishing a Ph.D. at Berkeley, a long garland of faculty positions dangling before him, Rodriguez walks away,

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