The Devil's Highway - A True Story

Informationen zum Autor A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil's Highway , Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird's Daughter , Into the Beautiful North , and Queen of America , as well as the story collection The Water Museum , a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Klappentext "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."In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" ( The Atlantic ). Zusammenfassung In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Louis Alberto Urrea, Luis A. Urrea, Luis Alberto Urrea
• Verlag: Back Bay Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.09.2005
• EAN: 9780316010801
• ISBN: 978-0-316-01080-1
• Seiten: 239
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Little, Brown and Company
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Mexico, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples