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Coyotes

A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants

Ted Conover

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English
Random House USA Inc
12 August 1987
To discover what becomes of Mexicans who cross into the United States without a visa, Conover traveled and worked alongside them for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey.

“Ted Conover has written a book about the Mexican poor that is at once intimate and epic. Coyotes is travel literature, social protest, and affirmation. I can compare this book to the best of George Orwell’s journeys to the heart of poverty.” --Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown and Hunger of Memory
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Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   251g
ISBN:   9780394755182
ISBN 10:   0394755189
Series:   Vintage Departures
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 2 to 12
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive

Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants

Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals. Theirs is a subterrestrial world of high-wire tensions, of brutal police, of sinister smugglers -- coyotes. A devastating document, this one must be read. -- Leon Uris The acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere has taken another adventure, this time on the underground railway that operates across America's southern border. To discover what becomes of Mexicans who desperately slip into the United States, Ted Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, walked across deserts, hid in orange orchards, waded through the Rio Grande, and cut life-threatening deals with tough-guy traffickers in human sweat. This electrifying account is the harrowing vision of a way of life no outsider has ever seen before.


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