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The Devil's Highway: A True Story

by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil's Highway: A True Story

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ISBN10: 0316010804



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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy (The Atlantic).

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.

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“A powerful, almost diabolical impression of the disaster and the exploitative conditions of the border. Urrea shows immigration policy on the human level.” Booklist

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“Confident and full of righteous rage, Urrea's story is a well-crafted melange of first-person testimony, geographic history, cultural and economic analysis, poetry and an indictment of immigration policy.” Publishers Weekly

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“The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy.” The Atlantic

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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.

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itpdx , January 26, 2015 (view all comments by itpdx)
Luis Alberto Urrea is an amazing writer. He can directly and poetically reach your heart. I had experienced his powerful writing in fiction. This is not fiction. He has stitched together the story of the Yuma 14, a group of Mexicans that crossed the Mexican-US border in the Arizona desert in May of 2001. Fourteen died including one man who has never been identified. Eleven were rescued by US authorities and survived barely. Even with all the uncertainties of the testimonies of confused survivors, Urrea has written a lyrical story that gets to the insanities of the Mexico-US border.

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janeyb , January 30, 2013 (view all comments by janeyb)
Whatever your views on immigration reform, you need to read this unforgettable true story. Urrea illuminates all sides of this issue. He is unbiased and a truly wonderful writer. I will be reading everything he has written.

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Little Wolf , August 13, 2012 (view all comments by Little Wolf)
"The Devil's Highway" refers to the hot, winding, desolate, Mexico to US route that has claimed lives for hundreds of years. Author Urrea chronicles the tales of cargo, human and otherwise, that risks this highway to "El Norte". Riches, freedom, servitude and gruesome death are all in the offing. These stories stem from historical record, humanitarian workers, survivors, families, border security, and the cold evidence of each corpse. The author fairly,and believably, weaves this input into a vivid human tableaux and document. The real thing.

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janeyb , August 07, 2012 (view all comments by janeyb)
This book was a Pulitzer prize finalist in 2005. I have to find out and read the book that won, because this book is the best book I have read since The Warmth of Other Suns. It is a true story about a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert. I hope this book will be made into a movie. Urrea is outstanding in his descriptions and detail. This book is heart-wrenching.

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7cats , January 01, 2011
An absolutely OUTSTANDING book and one that shows the reader just what the plight is of the potential "undocumented worker" from Mexico really is! This book examines one border crossing into Arizona that went terribly bad and many of the men died in the harsh sun of Southern Arizona. For anyone with an interest in the problems this country has with "undocumented workers", as I am, this book is quite fascinating to read!

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Amahia , January 03, 2010
An American migration story for the 21st century. Written by a journalist, Devil's Highway is interesting, balanced and informative. It is the tragic story of those who attempted but never became illegal immigrants. As Urrea narrates the story of the migrants lost in the desert, he provides all the background that brings them across the US-Mexico borderlands. Urrea teaches much about the region, border enforcement, the failure of policy, and the social and economic forces that propel migration.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316010801
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/01/2005
Publisher:
BACK BAY BOOKS
Pages:
272
Height:
.81IN
Width:
5.56IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2005
UPC Code:
2800316010803
Author:
Luis Alberto Urrea
Subject:
Ethnic Studies-Immigration
Subject:
United States Emigration and immigration.
Subject:
Human smuggling - Mexican-
Subject:
Emigration and immigration

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