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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Touchstone Books
Publication date
February 1, 1994
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780671882310
ISBN-10
0671882317
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$13.00
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Monster | Code of the Street | My Bloody Life | Tattoos on the Heart | Voices in the Kitchen | Experiencing Intercultural Communication | So Far From God | The Black Hand | It Calls You Back
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A former L.A. gang member describes his experiences in that world, recounting the sense of security and power found in a gang and the grim reality of violence and poverty. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: There has never been a more clear and compelling account of a gang member's life than Always Running, Luis J. Rodriguez's eloquent, impassioned, frighteningly vivid chronicle of his youth in Los Angeles in the late 60s and early 70s. Growing up in Watts and East L.A., Rodriguez joined his first gang at age 11 and was drawn into "la vida loca" - the crazy life. Gangs were "how we wove something out of the threads of nothing, " he remembers. By age 18, he was a veteran of gang warfare, police killings, drug overdoses, and suicides that had claimed 25 of his friends and had driven him and so many others to despair. In part, Rodriguez survived the violence and desperation of his youth by writing down his experiences. They were only woven into this astonishing book years later, when his son, Ramiro, joined a gang in Chicago where they now live. Always Running is packed with episode after episode of high drama, but within this honest and powerful depiction of social devastation, there is a father's impassioned message of understanding and hope to his son, and to thousands like him. Rodriguez's inspiring story should be read by anyone who cares about the future of children in America.
Editions
Hardcover
from Curbstone Pr (February 1, 1993)
9781880684061 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Luis Rodrigues began to relate the futility of his life in Los Angeles as a gang member; now at 30 years of age, realizing his son is following the same way of life in Chicago, finishes his life story as a legacy to his son
About: Luis Rodrigues began to relate the futility of his life in Los Angeles as a gang member; now at 30 years of age, realizing his son is following the same way of life in Chicago, finishes his life story as a legacy to his son
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Touchstone Books (February 1, 1994)
9780671882310 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.00
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