Autobiography of My Hungers (Hardcover)

Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body-all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms-even ""the smallest biggest joys"" help piece together a complex portrait of a gay man of colour who at last defines himself by what he learns, not by what he yearns for.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Rigoberto Gonzalez
Dimensions:	206 x 132 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-29250-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-299-29250-9
Barcode:	9780299292508

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