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 man's life in a Chicano gang--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...

"A los doce anos, Luis Rodriguez ya era un veterano de la guerra entre las pandillas de East Los Angeles. Atraido por una cultura pandillera aparentemente insuperable, fue testigo de un sinfin de balaceras, golpizas y arrestos y, mas tarde, con un miedo cada vez mayor, presencio como las drogas, los asesinatos, los suicidios y una delincuencia callejera carente de sentido cobraban la vida de amigos y familiares.
Poco tiempo despues, Rodriguez encontro la manera de dejar atras la vida del barrio a traves de la educacion y el poder de las palabras. Asi pudo liberarse de anos de violencia y...

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