The devil's highway review
Sophia
JACOB
Eth 101
The Review of ‘The Devils Highway’ by Luis Alberto Urrea
The author of the book ‘The Devils Highway’ is Luis Alberto Urrea. He was born in Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother. Urrea attended University of California and graduated with a degree in writing. He also did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado. After his studies, he taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard University. He has as well taught at the Massachusetts Bay Community College and the University of Colorado. He is a writer who has won many awards and published a total of 13 books. He applies his dual-culture life experiences to telling stories both from his Mexican and American backgrounds.
His book ‘The Devils Highway’ is a non-fiction account of immigrants from Mexico who get lost in the desert of Arizona. Three years after this happened, Luis, wrote their story. The result was an award winning book, “The Devils Highway”. He won the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a “book of the year”. His years of experience as a teacher of literature and writing gave him mileage in his writing experience. He won his first award in 1994, the Colorado Book Award in poetry. He has written all genres, ranging from poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, non-fictions and interviews (Urrea, 2014).
When he is writing ‘The Devil's Highway’ Luis Urrea discusses the difficult journey that some twenty six men would undertake when crossing the southern Arizona desert from Mexico into the United States. It is a story of environmental extremes, greed, and humanity at its most depraved. Urrea depicts the experiences of this group of men as they cross the deadliest region of the continent and suffer a great betrayal. The author writes the book to tell the story of twenty-six determined men from Mexico, attempting to cross the border to America. He explains on their determination and hopes of attaining the “American dream” (Urrea, The Devils Highway- A True
JACOB
Eth 101
The Review of ‘The Devils Highway’ by Luis Alberto Urrea
The author of the book ‘The Devils Highway’ is Luis Alberto Urrea. He was born in Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother. Urrea attended University of California and graduated with a degree in writing. He also did his graduate studies at the University of Colorado. After his studies, he taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard University. He has as well taught at the Massachusetts Bay Community College and the University of Colorado. He is a writer who has won many awards and published a total of 13 books. He applies his dual-culture life experiences to telling stories both from his Mexican and American backgrounds.
His book ‘The Devils Highway’ is a non-fiction account of immigrants from Mexico who get lost in the desert of Arizona. Three years after this happened, Luis, wrote their story. The result was an award winning book, “The Devils Highway”. He won the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a “book of the year”. His years of experience as a teacher of literature and writing gave him mileage in his writing experience. He won his first award in 1994, the Colorado Book Award in poetry. He has written all genres, ranging from poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, non-fictions and interviews (Urrea, 2014).
When he is writing ‘The Devil's Highway’ Luis Urrea discusses the difficult journey that some twenty six men would undertake when crossing the southern Arizona desert from Mexico into the United States. It is a story of environmental extremes, greed, and humanity at its most depraved. Urrea depicts the experiences of this group of men as they cross the deadliest region of the continent and suffer a great betrayal. The author writes the book to tell the story of twenty-six determined men from Mexico, attempting to cross the border to America. He explains on their determination and hopes of attaining the “American dream” (Urrea, The Devils Highway- A True