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Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
by Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Used
- Near Fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385425309
- ISBN 13
- 9780385425308
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1993. 1st . Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lueders-Booth, John (photos). 190pp.; SC brwn.w/blue,blk.&white-photocover; spine sunned,otherwise fine w/clean,tight pgs. Economics on the Mexican-American border region. John Nichols' review copy.
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
- Xochis Bookstore and Gallery
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051094
- Title
- Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
- Author
- Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Illustrator
- Lueders-Booth, John (photos)
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385425309
- ISBN 13
- 9780385425308
- Publisher
- Anchor Books/Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Hispanic Studies; Sociology; Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Stan;
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