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 This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). Named a Best Book of the 21st Century by Kirkus Reviews. In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic. 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).

Product details

• Authors: Louis Alberto Urrea, Luis A. Urrea, Luis Alberto Urrea
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.09.2005
• EAN: 9780316010801
• ISBN: 978-0-316-01080-1
• No. of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Little, Brown and Company
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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