DESERT AMERICA: A Journey Through Our Most Divided Landscape - Brossura

Martínez, Rubén

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ISBN 10: 1250024145 ISBN 13: 9781250024145

Casa editrice: Picador Paper, 2013

Riassunto

The Emmy Award-winning journalist and author of Crossing Over presents a portrait of 21st-century Western desert regions that analyzes the disparities between their wealth and poverty and their beauty and ecological ruins, evaluating such ironies as the race wars along the Rio Grande banks and the role of Native Americans in combating illegal immigration from Mexico.

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L'autore:

Rubén Martínez, an Emmy-winning journalist and poet, is the author of Crossing Over and The New Americans. He lives in Los Angeles, where he holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University.

Product Description:

"Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock--maybe of recognition, maybe alarm--then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go."--William deBuys, author of "A Great Aridness" and "River of Traps" The economic boom--and the devastation left in its wake--was writ nowhere as large as on the American West. Over the past decade, the most iconic of American landscapes has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. In "Desert America," a work of powerful reportage and memoir, acclaimed author Ruben Martinez explores a world of extremes: drug addiction flourishing in the shadow of some of America's richest zip codes, an exclusive Texas enclave that coexists with bloodshed on the banks of the Rio Grande, and Native Americans hunting down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border."Desert America" details Martinez's own love for this most contested region and reveals that the great frontier is now in the forefront of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America."

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• Editore: Picador Paper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250024145
• ISBN 13: 9781250024145
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352