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No longer available in our cloth edition, this landmark book is available in paper
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Always Running
La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
by Luis J. Rodríguez
“An absolutely unique work: richly literary and poetic, yet urgent and politically explosive at the same time....And what a great story it tells!”—Jonathan Kozol
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“A powerful, lyrical, brutal, and beautiful book.” —Wendy Warren Keebler, Detroit Free Press
“If I had one book to give to high school students, I would give them Luis J. Rodríguez' Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A....This book succeeds as memoir and art, as poetry and as documentary. His story of the gang days is not only the story of his survival but a work that wants to help others survive...”—Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Colorado Review
Available in paperback and in Spanish from Simon & Schuster
Always Running received the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction, Chicago Sun Times Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction, and named to the Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books and the 1994 New York Public Library “Books for the Teen Age”.
In the tradition of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land, Always Running is already a classic of “relevant” literature in the contemporary classroom. This memoir is a dramatic account of growing up Chicano in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 70s.
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