Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.

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 manâ€™s life in a Chicano gangâ€”and 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 moreâ€”until 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.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria/Primero Sueno Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780743276917
ReleaseDate 2005-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780743276917

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria/Primero Sueno Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780743276917
ReleaseDate	2005-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780743276917

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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