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Coyotes

A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants

By Ted Conover

By Ted Conover

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Part of Vintage Departures

Category: Travel Writing

Paperback $17.00

Aug 12, 1987 | ISBN 9780394755182

Coyotes by Ted Conover
Paperback $17.00
Aug 12, 1987 | ISBN 9780394755182

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About Coyotes

To discover what becomes of Mexicans who cross into the United States without a visa, Conover traveled and worked alongside them for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey.

“Ted Conover has written a book about the Mexican poor that is at once intimate and epic. Coyotes is travel literature, social protest, and affirmation. I can compare this book to the best of George Orwell’s journeys to the heart of poverty.” –Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown and Hunger of Memory

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About Ted Conover

TED CONOVER is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine,… More about Ted Conover

Product Details

Category: Travel Writing

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Vintage
Aug 12, 1987 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394755182
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Praise

"Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals. Theirs is a subterrestrial world of high-wire tensions, of brutal police, of sinister smugglers — coyotes. A devastating document, this one must be read." — Leon Uris

The acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere has taken another adventure, this time on the underground railway that operates across America’s southern border. To discover what becomes of Mexicans who desperately slip into the United States, Ted Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, walked across deserts, hid in orange orchards, waded through the Rio Grande, and cut life-threatening deals with tough-guy traffickers in human sweat. This electrifying account is the harrowing vision of a way of life no outsider has ever seen before.

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