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The Devil's Highway: A True Story Paperback - 2005

by Luis Alberto Urrea

"Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."


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This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "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.

First line

Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn't know their own names, couldn't remember where they'd come from, had forgotten how long they'd been lost.

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  • Title The Devil's Highway: A True Story
  • Author Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-09-01
  • ISBN 9780316010801 / 0316010804
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.56 x 0.81 in (20.78 x 14.12 x 2.06 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Emigration and immigration -, Human smuggling - Mexican-American Border
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.873

Media reviews

Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 105
  • Outside, 06/01/2015, Page 89

About the author

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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