Critical Praise
"THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review!
In a review circulated on the Knight Ridder wire, the San Jose Mercury News calls THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY by Luis Alberto Urrea "a poetically austere account of the tragedy.... [Urrea] based his book on.... the conventional tools of journalism. But he molds the material into a terse border epic imaginatively evoking the Mexican and U.S. frontier worlds"
"In THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, writer Luis Alberto Urrea stuns us into judgment with a poetically austere account of the tragedy that he calls 'the big die-off, the largest death event in border history.' Urrea has talent commensurate to the task."
-The Miami Herald
"Urrea spins a compelling narrative from clear prose, tackling a multitude of issues with clarity and a readable depth."
-The Denver Post
THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY... "Confident and full of righteous rage...well-crafted."
--Publishers Weekly
"The best thing I've read in years. Like his brilliant Across the Wire, Luis Urrea's The Devil's Highway is rich, intimate, powerful, terrifying, and absolutely necessary. Everyone should read this book."
-Stewart O'Nan
"The Devil's Highway is a stunning book: powerful, poetic, passionate, and moving. It takes a single tragic incident, refracts it through history and mythology, and uses the result not only to examine the relationship between the rich and the poor, the weak and the powerful, but to illuminate the nature of human beings at their most desperate, their most devious, and their most courageous. Quite simply, it's superb."
-John Connolly
"Take a walk on the dead side. The largest folk movement in human history is taking place on the U.S./Mexican border. Nobody talks about it. This slaughterhouse fries and mangles at least 400 people a year. Nobody talks about it. The Devil's Highway is coming to Main Street. Open your ears and eyes, wash the blood over your hands, and read Luis Urrea. We gotta talk. Now."
-Charles Bowden
"Few authors could write so entertainingly about such tragedy, fewer yet could do so with authority, and perhaps only one could be fair to the U.S. Border Patrol at the same time. Luis Urrea has a large heart, a wicked wit, and has written a wonderful book."
-Ted Conover
- Format:
- HARDCOVER BOOK
- Publish Date:
- 4/2/2004
- Price:
- $24.95
- ISBN:
- 9780316746717
- Pages:
- 256
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
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