Book by Rodriguez Luis J
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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man’s life in a Chicano gang—and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more—until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.
At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
"An absolutely unique work: richly literary and poetic, yet urgent and politically explosive at the same time...A permanent testament to human courage and transcendence."
-- Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities
"Rodriguez's account of his coming of age is vivid, raw...fierce, and fearless...Here's truth no television set, burning night and day, could ever begin to offer."
-- Gary Soto, The New York Times Book Review
"Every spiky anecdote from a life of guns, razors, uppers, downers, glue, heroin, sex, and early death supports this former gang member's view of the violence as collective suicide. That Rodriguez's memoir takes place...before the '92 L.A. riots only makes this beautifully written and politically astute account more compelling."
-- Suzanne Ruta, Entertainment Weekly
"Extraordinarily haunting and evocative."
-- Paul Ruffins, The Washington Post Book World
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1993. A lightly used but largely presentable copy, with some mild rubbing along the spine and a few knocks and bumps to the outer corners, but no major signs of wear. Dust jacket is complete, with some small nicks at the outer edges repaired and reinforced with conservation tape. Why do most sellers not describe their actual item? Buy with confidence, support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop and help to preserve our High Streets as interesting places to shop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA (now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre Size: 160 x 230 mm. 80. Item Type: Book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: True Crime; Britain/UK; 1990s; ISBN: 1880684063. ISBN/EAN: 9781880684061. Inventory No: 44902. N° de réf. du vendeur 44902
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : DJ: Very Good. 1st ed. 260 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4. Light blue cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Blue glossy dj. Foxing to page edges. No markings noted. N° de réf. du vendeur 85545
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jorge - Luis Rodriguez 3-8-94" in a large scrawling script. First edition in dustjacket. Very good condition - some bruising at the spine tips. Binding is tight as if unread. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is also very good with minor wear to the panel edges. 260 pp., glossary. N° de réf. du vendeur 1577
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hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. No markings. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000736055
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