Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
作者: Urrea, Luis
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (1993年01月01日)
页数: 224页
语种: 英语
ISBN: 9780385425308
条形码: 9780385425308
商品重量: 180.00g
商品尺寸: 20.68cm * 13.21cm * 1.42cm
内容简介
Much has been written about the hardships faced by Mexicans who have illegally crossed over into the United States, but until now almost no attention has been paid to the terrible living conditions these people suffer "across the wire" (behind the Mexican border), which forces so many of them to make the dangerous journey to the U.S. 15 photos.
编辑推荐
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and "official translator" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey "across the wire" into the United States.
More than just an expose, Across the Wire is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to survive against the most impossible odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.
Biographical Note
Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977. After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border. In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard. Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Review Citations
Library Journal 01/01/1993 pg.0 (EAN 9780385425308)
Publishers Weekly 12/07/1992 pg.0 (EAN 9780385425308)
Booklist 03/15/1993 pg.1295 (EAN 9780385425308)
