Crossing

By Manuel Luis Martinez

Book Overview

Novel. In CROSSING, Manuel Luis Martinez explores the American obsession with mobility, the irrepressible hope that there must be something better somewhere and the relentless desire to move on in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0927534800
• ISBN13: 9780927534802
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Riveting

This novel keeps your eyes glued to the page in white-knuckled suspense. Can't wait to get ahold of Martinez's much anticipated second novel, _Drift_, due out from Picador in April 2003.

Survival of the Fittest

Intrigued by an actual news story relating the deaths of undocumented workers found in a railroad boxcar, Martinez envisions what prompted these deaths in this book. This is an intense story about Luis' crossing to the United States and the unexpected events that take place in the boxcar. Here, Luis must deal with his personal demons and yet stay strong in body and mind in order to survive. Martinez does an outstanding job relating the story with detail and emotion. He gives readers insight to what desperate immigrants attempt at doing in search of a better life and yet no know the risks involved. I agree, this book was hard to put down.

Crossing

This book is exceptional. The author really puts you where the story is being held, in a box car. It is so well written that I could not put it down. I read this book in 3 days. I recommend this book to anyone who just reads ordinary novels. This book is not a novel, it will take you on a journey most people never even think about.

a trip on a train you will soon not forget

there have not been too many books,i.e.novels, short stories,etc that i have read that have had the intensity,magnetizm that this novel has made me experience. it seems as if the author went on a fateful ride with the actual persons in this novel. the graphic details of the events that occur throughout the story are so intense that you cannot but continue to read on because you don't want to wait until later to find out what will happen next. the author is one of a kind. look forward to his next work, hopefully soon.