The Devil's Highway
A True Story
Published on 16. November 2008
256 pages
978-0-316-04928-3 (ISBN)
Description
This important and timely 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.
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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.
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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Welcome
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- Map
- PART ONE: CUTTING THE DRAG
- 1. The Rules of the Game
- PART TWO: DEAD MAN'S SIGN
- 2. In Veracruz
- 3. The Coyote and the Chicken
- 4. El Guía
- 5. Jesús Walks Among Us
- 6. In Sonoita
- 7. A Pepsi for the Apocalypse
- 8. Bad Step at Bluebird
- 9. Killed by the Light
- PART THREE: IN DESOLATION
- 10. The Long Walk
- 11. Their Names
- 12. Broken Promise
- 13. The Trees and the Sun
- 14. Helicopters
- PART FOUR: AFTERMATH
- 15. Aftermath
- 16. Home
- Afterword: Ten Years On
- Acknowledgments
- Discover More Luis Alberto Urrea
- About the Author
- Other Books by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Extraordinary Acclaim for Luis Alberto Urrea's "The Devil's Highway
- Reading Group Guide
- Desolation Road
- A conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea
- Questions and topics for discussion
- Luis Alberto Urrea's suggestions for further reading
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
