Coyotes

by Conover, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780394755182
• ISBN10: 0394755189
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1987-08-12
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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

Author Biography

Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xvii
The Gringo and the Mexicano	3	(28)
Deep into the Orchard	31	(34)
Welcome to L.A.	65	(42)
Phoenix to Florida at 25 MPH	107	(36)
In the Land of Avocados	143	(48)
Coming into the Country	191	(56)
Epilogue	247	(14)
Afterword	261