| Author: |
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Luis Urrea
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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208 |
| Date: |
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1996-09-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0385484194 |
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Anchor |
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0.4 pounds |
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0.4 x 5.2 x 8.0 inches |
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1st |
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3 nickinpa (USA: PA), beth (USA: CA), Heather Davyduck (Canada) |
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Product Description
The award-winning author of Across the Wire delves into the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers in By the Lake of Sleeping Children. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States--and ignored by both. 10 photos.
Amazon.com Review
This novelistic portrait of Tijuana garbage pickers and dump dwellers is variously funny, sad and startling. Americans who think that they have encountered real poverty in the south Bronx will be in for a shock when they read this book. And yet this is not a story of desperation. Urrea (born of a Mexican father and an American mother) does not ask pity for his subjects. Neither does he repeat childish political slogans about inequality (except to make them sound silly). Rather, he reveals the fascinating lives of resourceful Mexicans living along the border.
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