{"product_id":"coyotes-isbn-9780394755182","title":"Coyotes","description":"\u003cb\u003eTo discover what becomes of Mexicans who cross into the United States without a visa, acclaimed author and journalist Ted Conover traveled and worked alongside them for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Absorbing...Sharply obseverd and sympathetic.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ted Conover has written a book about the Mexican poor that is at once intimate and epic. \u003ci\u003eCoyotes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eRichard Rodriguez, author of \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHunger of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cb\u003eTed Conover \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eNewjack: Guarding Sing Sing \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eRolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic.\u003c\/i\u003e The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233053978853,"sku":"NP9780394755182","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394755182.jpg?v=1767724194","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/coyotes-isbn-9780394755182","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}