Coyotes: Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens - Couverture souple

Conover, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0434140821 ISBN 13 : 9780434140824

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 1988

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals. Theirs is a subterrestrial world of high-wire tensions, of brutal police, of sinister smugglers -- coyotes. A devastating document, this one must be read." -- Leon Uris

The acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere has taken another adventure, this time on the underground railway that operates across America's southern border. To discover what becomes of Mexicans who desperately slip into the United States, Ted Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, walked across deserts, hid in orange orchards, waded through the Rio Grande, and cut life-threatening deals with tough-guy traffickers in human sweat. This electrifying account is the harrowing vision of a way of life no outsider has ever seen before.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0434140821
• ISBN 13: 9780434140824
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264