To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East La Outlaw

by Ernie Lopez and Ernie Lpez

Book Overview

When Ernie L pez was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of necessity got tangled up with ambition and adventure. At thirteen, a joyride in a stolen car led to a sentence in California's harshest juvenile reformatory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292706839
• ISBN13: 9780292706835
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"