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Ted Conover

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Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 96,640. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Social policy
To understand the lives of Mexicans who slip into the United States, Ted Conover accompanied them across deserts, hid in orange orchards, floated across the Rio Grande, and cut deals with traffickers in human sweat. This classic account, a harrowing vision of life among the American underclass, is an enduring contribution to our national debate on immigration.
Whiteout: Lost In Aspen by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 107,760. Language: English. Published: December 14, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » Specialties & interests
Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, WHITEOUT is a meditation on wealth and the vain, glorious quest for paradise in Aspen, Colorado. Even as Ted Conover describes how he crashed Don Johnson’s Christmas party, or what it was like to sit in on the taping of John Denver’s holiday video, he is turning the lens of his craft upon himself and documenting his own seduction by the Aspen mystique.
Rolling Nowhere by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 99,690. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2012 and represented by The Robbins Office. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Sociology
Ted Conover's first book takes the reader along on his dream trip—a hardscrabble netherworld built for freight, not people—in search of an America "where numbers live like men."

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