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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970094603321

Autore

Sanchez Reymundo <1963->

Titolo

Once a king, always a king : the unmaking of a Latin king / / Reymundo Sanchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, c2003

ISBN

1-55652-505-2

1-56976-235-X

1-55652-740-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

BIO026000

Altri autori (Persone)

SanchezReymundo <1963->

Disciplina

977.3/11004687295/0092

B

Soggetti

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago

Gang members - Illinois - Chicago

Violence - Illinois - Chicago

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Chicago (Ill.) Biography

Dallas (Tex.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sequel to: My bloody life.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Once a King, Always a King; 2 Career Change; 3 Josie's Way; 4 Fear; 5 Cocaine Again; 6 The First Blessing; 7 Doing Time; 8 Almost Free; 9 Work Release; 10 New Beginning; 11 A Different Kind of Girl; 12 There Is Such a Thing as Friendship; 13 Lovers; 14 A New Plan; 15 Welcome to Dallas; 16 Is This Love?; 17 Maybe We Can Try Again; 18 Release of Pain; 19 Changes; 20 Here and Now; For Those at Risk

Sommario/riassunto

This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a ?normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto ?once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez



wound up behind bars and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run