The Devil's Highway: A True Story

The Devil's Highway: A True StoryFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist, "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

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, "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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 09/01/2005
ISBN: 9780316010801
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.56w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 105
Outside 06/01/2015 pg. 89