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The Devil's Highway
THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY - Luis Alberto Urrea
Call Number: LIBRARY WEST General Collection -- JV6475.U77 2004; EDUCATION LIBRARY-- JV6475.U77 2005 (papbk)
ISBN/ISSN: 0316746711; 9780316010801 (papbk)
The devil's highway : a true story
by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Published: New York : Little, Brown, c2004.
Description: xii, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Includes index.
Summary: "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it. Twelve came back out." "Now, Luis Alberto Urrea tells the story of this modern odyssey. He takes us back to the small towns and unpaved cities south of the border, where the poor fall prey to dreams of a better life and the sinister promises of smugglers. We meet the men who will decide to make the crossing along the Devil's Highway and, on the other side of the border, the men who are ready to prevent them from reaching their destination. Urrea reveals exactly what happened when the twenty-six headed into the wasteland, and how they were brutally betrayed by the one man they had trusted most. And from that betrayal came the inferno, a descent into a world of cactus spines, labyrinths of sand, mountains shaped like the teeth of a shark, and a screaming sun so intense that even at midnight the temperature only drops to 97 degrees. And yet, the men would not give up. The Devil's Highway is a story of astonishing courage and strength, of an epic battle against circumstance. These twenty-six men would look the Devil in the eyes - and some of them would not blink."--BOOK JACKET. $35.00
About the Author
According to the publisher: (from the back book jacket of the Hardback copy of the Devil's Highway)
Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of Across the Wire, winner of the Christopher Award, and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. He is the recipient of an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a Colorado Book Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His poetry has been included in The Best American Poetry, and his most recent book, Six Kinds of Sky, won the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Editor's Choice for Fiction. He and his family live outside Chicago.
Interviews With Author
Luis Alberto Urrea speaks of his writing and his books with Jill Owens, on June 3, 2009, at Powells, City of Books, Portland, Oregon, before his Reading began.
Jilll Owens of Powells.com begins:
Luis
Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has
been writing about the relationship between the United States and
Mexico, amongst other things, for 30 years.
Click on the blue link below for the interview.
- Author Interviews at Powells.com
- ReadingGroupGuide Biography (self-written) A Biography: Excerpted from The Devil's Highway © Copyright 2009 by Luis Alberto Urrea. Viewed on ReadingGroupGuide pages, 7/22/09 10:50 AM
- Listen to Luis Alberto Urrea Intrview--SFPL.org Listen to an interview with Luis Alberto Urrea in
Conversation with Oscar Villalon on the San Francisco Public Library "One City One Book" Page. You may listen to or download the Interview. Follow the directions on the SFPL page. The Interviewer, Oscar Villalon, is the Book Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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