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Imperial

William T. Vollmann

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Imperial

Imperial won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9781101105153
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
US-Mexico borderMigrant laborImperial Valley, California

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