The devil's highway : a true story / Louis Alberto Urrea.
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TextDescription: xvi, 255, 24 pages : map ; 21 cmISBN: 9780316010801 (pbk.); 0316010804 (pbk.)Subject(s): Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region | Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 304.873072 LOC classification: JV6475 | .U77 2014
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Summary: Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out.Summary: The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Cutting the drag. The rules of the game -- Dead man's sign. In Veracruz ; The coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; A Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation. The long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; The trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath. Aftermath ; Home -- Afterword : ten years on.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 304.873/URR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500047267 |
Includes "Reading Group Guide."
"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, April 2004." -- Title page verso.
Cutting the drag. The rules of the game -- Dead man's sign. In Veracruz ; The coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; A Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation. The long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; The trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath. Aftermath ; Home -- Afterword : ten years on.
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out.
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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