Hard Knocks: An Azorean-American Odyssey (A Memoir)
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Author: Francisco Cota Fagundes, 2000. ISBN 0-943722-26-8
Hard Knocks is three narratives in one: an immigrant's tale, a story of success against unimaginable odds, and a fascinating autobiography. Fagundes' account of his long journey takes the reader from its modest beginnings in an Azorean village, through arduous years in the almost surreal world of California's dairies, to an unlikely denouement in the halls of American academia.
The author is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Hard Knocks is three narratives in one: an immigrant's tale, a story of success against unimaginable odds, and a fascinating autobiography. Fagundes' account of his long journey takes the reader from its modest beginnings in an Azorean village, through arduous years in the almost surreal world of California's dairies, to an unlikely denouement in the halls of American academia.
The author is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
