The Devil’s Highway by Luís Alberto Urrea audiobook

The Devil’s Highway

By Luís Alberto Urrea
Read by Luís Alberto Urrea

Hachette Book Group

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: Library CD
  • 2 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781611136807

  • ISBN: 9781611136388

Runtime: 8.85 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Social Science
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2005 for General Nonfiction

Huffington Post Pick of Books to Help You Understand America

An Electric Literature Pick of True Stories about the Journey to Seek Asylum

The author of Across the Wire offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of twenty-six men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only twelve men came back out.

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A painstaking, unsentimental and oddly lyrical chronology of the traveling party’s horrific trek through the Sonora.” —Washington Post
“Superb…Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“What is the real story of undocumented immigration from our southern neighbor?… In The Devil’s Highway, he puts this story into human terms.” —Huffington Post
“The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of US border policy.” —The Atlantic
“Urrea’s story is a well-crafted mélange of first-person testimony, geographic history, cultural and economic analysis, poetry and an indictment of immigration policy. It may not directly influence the forces behind the US’s southern border travesties, but it does give names and identities to the faceless and maligned “wetbacks” and “pollos,” and highlights the brutality and unsustainable nature of the many walls separating the two countries.” —Publishers Weekly
“The imaginative license Urrea takes, paralleling the laconic facts of the case that he incorporates into his narrative, produces a powerful, almost diabolical impression of the disaster and the exploitative conditions at the border. Urrea shows immigration policy on the human level.” —Booklist
“His reading of his own work offers all the advantages of author narration—perfect pronunciation and emphasis—with none of the disadvantages. He obviously enjoys the idioms of the border.” —AudioFile

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Author

Author Bio: Luís Alberto Urrea

Author Bio: Luís Alberto Urrea

Luís Alberto Urrea is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction, including The Devil’s Highway, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The House of Broken Angels, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among many other honors, including the Lannan Literary Award, Edgar Award, Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize, American Book Award, Christopher Award, and more.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : Library CD, Playaway
Category: Nonfiction/Social Science
Runtime: 8.85
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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