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Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants Paperback - 1987

by Ted Conover

The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States.


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To discover what becomes of Mexicans who cross into the United States without a visa, Conover traveled and worked alongside them for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey. "Ted Conover has written a book about the Mexican poor that is at once intimate and epic. Coyotes is travel literature, social protest, and affirmation. I can compare this book to the best of George Orwell's journeys to the heart of poverty." --Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown and Hunger of Memory

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  • Title Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants
  • Author Ted Conover
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date August 12, 1987
  • ISBN 9780394755182 / 0394755189
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.19 x 0.62 in (20.32 x 13.18 x 1.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
  • Library of Congress subjects Alien labor, Mexican - United States, Illegal aliens - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87006101
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.627

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"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.

Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/15/1987, Page 0
  • Men's Journal, 04/01/2004, Page 34
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/31/1987, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 04/01/1988, Page 0

About the author

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.
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