Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
by URREA, Luis Alberto
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385425309
- ISBN 13
- 9780385425308
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977. After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border. In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard. Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 564492
- Title
- Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
- Author
- URREA, Luis Alberto
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385425309
- ISBN 13
- 9780385425308
- Publisher
- Anchor/Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- ShortStories, LatinAmericanLit, Sociology
Terms of Sale
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