Always Running : La Vida Loca - Gang Days in L. A.

English

ISBN: 0743276914

EAN: 9780743276917

Category: Biography & Autobiography / General

Publisher: Touchstone

Release Date: 06/07/2011

Synopsis: The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover. Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Timesnotable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Runningis the searing true story of one mans life in a Chicano gangand his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip. By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no moreuntil his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running,a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Runningis ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.

Always Running : La Vida Loca - Gang Days in L. A.

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.6 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.44 inches

Weight: 8.64 oz

Pages: 288