![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/0a/86/0a86796367a152159744c667941433041414141_v5.jpg)
Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (1993)Tekijä: Luis Alberto Urrea
![]() - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. ![]() While not quite as compelling as Urrea's later "The Devil's Highway", this is still gripping writing. At his best, Mr. Urrea feels like non-fiction's answer to Cormac McCarthy. Using sparse, visual language, he creates imagery that cuts straight to the truth. He is the son of an American mother and Mexican father, and he has seen the wire from both sides. No matter how you feel about the challenges that haunt the U.S./Mexico border - and I know that's an emotional, politically charged argument - this book tells personal stories of men and women who have lived on one or both sides, and the struggles they face, whether trying to find a better life, outrun demons or dealers, or simply survive in a world that seems to know few pleasures outside of mere survival. The book peaks with "Father's Day", the story of Urrea's father's tragic death. This book was written in the early 90's, I believe. Keep that in mind as you read it. I truly recommend "Devil's Highway", a compelling true story of 20 Mexicans attempting to cross over into the U.S. Urrea puts you right there in the desert, amid the scorpions and the heat. If you pick it up, be prepared to keep reading. "Across the Wire" is a hard one to put down. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Innoitti:Amerikan maa (tekijä: Jeanine Cummins)
This is a book of fragments, stories of moments in the lives of people along the Mexican border.
"Offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have ever seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and 'official translator' of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey 'across the wire' into the United States."--Provided by publisher Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Current Discussions-
![]() LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)972.2History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Baja CaliforniaKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:![]()
|