Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A Paperback - 2005
by Rodriguez, Luis J
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- Paperback
This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.
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- Title Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A
- Author Rodriguez, Luis J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Touchstone Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 018389
- ISBN 9780743276917 / 0743276914
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Reading level 830
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Library of Congress subjects Rodriguez, Luis J., Gangs - California - Los Angeles
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005281606
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is 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 Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/2005, Page 52
