The Devil's Highway: A True Story |
 enlarge | Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 6194
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316010804
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.873072
EAN: 9780316010801
ASIN: 0316010804
Publication Date: September 19, 2005
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In this work of grave beauty and searing powerone of the most widely praised pieces of investigative reporting to appear in recent yearswe follow 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devils Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it, a place that for hundreds of years has stolen mens souls and swallowed their blood. Only 12 of the men made it out.
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Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 A MUST read for every American July 6, 2008
Definitely worth reading. This is in my top-five of all time. Well written. Great research. Easy to read. Compelling story. Read it.
heartbreaking May 8, 2008
Luis paints the scary picture of crossing the desert. He puts humans behind the names of the crossers, border protrol, and the cyotes. Based on true events that happen everyday. This is a must read for everyone in the United States.
Devils Highway April 28, 2008
Excellent story. Highly recommend to others. Great eye opener to be thankful for everything we have. Great book!!
Wow! February 26, 2008
I was assigned this book for a college English class. I was not looking forward to reading it, but found myself very glad I did.
It is a very interesting account of a true life happening told in a poetic(almost florid) way. The word pictures are amazing! I appreciate the way the author "shows" not "tells".
I especially enjoyed the way each person's point of view is explained. Immigration is a very complicated problems with no easy solutions. This book did a good job of making me empathize with and understand the various characters whose lives are very removed and different from my own.
(In that way it reminded me of "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman.)
 The Devil's Highway January 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The conflict of the story is there are 26 Mexicans from different parts of Mexico that cross the boarder illegally. They cross the boarder into a desert they call hell. The desert is the Sonoran desert and is part of southern Arizona. In this desert there is no water also there are deadly animals and spirits. Some are left behind waiting for the return of others.
I liked the book because its real and I could never picture myself going threw the desert with no food or water. I also liked the book because it described the surrounding and face to face things in that Arizona desert. I didn't like it because it made me think about people starving in the desert. I would recommend this book to people that like reading long stories. I also recommend this to people that like the setting of a harsh place.
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