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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781786634931
- Book Title
- Hollywood Kid : the Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 Hitman
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- World / Caribbean & Latin American, Organized Crime, Political, Criminology
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel ngel Tobar's small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad--the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha--a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country's civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world's deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward. The Salvadoran journalist scar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan Jos Mart nez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing--a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members--until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1786634937
ISBN-13
9781786634931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038391527
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hollywood Kid : the Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 Hitman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
World / Caribbean & Latin American, Organized Crime, Political, Criminology
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6439
Reviews
" The Hollywood Kid is a revelation. As they track a single tragic life, Los Hermanos Martínez delve deep into El Salvador's tortured labyrinth, into the macabre working of the Mara Salvatruches, into the sinister consequence of failed US policies, and in the process recover what Neil Smith called the lost history of the American Empire. This is reportage made literature, darkness made light, and one of the most important books of investigative journalism I've read in years." --Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her "As the poet William Blake famously put it, 'General forms have their vitality in particulars, and every particular is a Man.' The Martínez brothers' beautifully written account of the life and death of the feared gangster El Niño de Hollywood, based on hours and hours of interviews with him and those close to him, starkly reveals the underlying dynamics of the Central American gang phenomenon in vivid and insightful detail." --Dennis Rodgers, author of Global Gangs Praise for Óscar Martínez: "Martínez dives into the underworld of his subjects, navigating barrios that police won't enter, spending days and nights with gang members. His methods resemble war reporting and his prose is cinematic ... Like Gabriel García Márquez, the beloved Colombian writer, Martínez pens scenes that are suspenseful, moving, and vivid." --Sarah Esther Maslin, New Republic "Óscar Martínez deserves praise not only for his efforts, and for what he writes about, but because he writes so very well." -- New Yorker "Martínez's ... first book, The Beast , drew on eight trips clinging to the roof of the infamous migrants' train through Mexico, chronicling their desperation in grippingly graphic detail. His [second] book, A History of Violence , takes a step back to explore what the migrants heading to the US are running away from. The unflinching cameos it paints offer a chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity." -- Financial Times, " The Hollywood Kid is a revelation. As they track a single tragic life, Los Hermanos Martínez delve deep into El Salvador's tortured labyrinth, into the macabre working of the Mara Salvatruches, into the sinister consequence of failed US policies, and in the process recover what Neil Smith called the lost history of the American Empire. This is reportage made literature, darkness made light, and one of the most important books of investigative journalism I've read in years." --Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her "The book is simply amazing. Easily one of the best pieces of journalism I have ever read, one that gave me a visceral feeling for the 'Kid's' pain and for the pain he caused. Besides the very great reporting, there is a real lyricism in the writing." --Joe Sacco, author of Palestine "As the poet William Blake famously put it, 'General forms have their vitality in particulars, and every particular is a Man.' The Martínez brothers' beautifully written account of the life and death of the feared gangster El Niño de Hollywood, based on hours and hours of interviews with him and those close to him, starkly reveals the underlying dynamics of the Central American gang phenomenon in vivid and insightful detail." --Dennis Rodgers, author of Global Gangs "Masterfully told." --Belén Fernández, NACLA " The Hollywood Kid is a gripping read, thoroughly researched and dramatically conveyed." --Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin, " The Hollywood Kid is a revelation. As they track a single tragic life, Los Hermanos Martínez delve deep into El Salvador's tortured labyrinth, into the macabre working of the Mara Salvatruches, into the sinister consequence of failed US policies, and in the process recover what Neil Smith called the lost history of the American Empire. This is reportage made literature, darkness made light, and one of the most important books of investigative journalism I've read in years." --Junot Díaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her "As the poet William Blake famously put it, 'General forms have their vitality in particulars, and every particular is a Man.' The Martínez brothers' beautifully written account of the life and death of the feared gangster El Niño de Hollywood, based on hours and hours of interviews with him and those close to him, starkly reveals the underlying dynamics of the Central American gang phenomenon in vivid and insightful detail." --Dennis Rodgers, author of Global Gangs "Masterfully told." --Belén Fernández, NACLA Praise for Óscar Martínez: "Martínez dives into the underworld of his subjects, navigating barrios that police won't enter, spending days and nights with gang members. His methods resemble war reporting and his prose is cinematic ... Like Gabriel García Márquez, the beloved Colombian writer, Martínez pens scenes that are suspenseful, moving, and vivid." --Sarah Esther Maslin, New Republic "Óscar Martínez deserves praise not only for his efforts, and for what he writes about, but because he writes so very well." -- New Yorker "Martínez's ... first book, The Beast , drew on eight trips clinging to the roof of the infamous migrants' train through Mexico, chronicling their desperation in grippingly graphic detail. His [second] book, A History of Violence , takes a step back to explore what the migrants heading to the US are running away from. The unflinching cameos it paints offer a chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity." -- Financial Times
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-287227
Dewey Decimal
364.1066092
Dewey Edition
23
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