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Charles Bowden

Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields Paperback – Illustrated, 17 Mar. 2011

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Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In Murder City , Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants- a raped beauty queen, a repentant hit man, a journalist fleeing for his life- with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez's culture of violence will not only worsen but inevitably spread north.

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361 pages
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English
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Bold Type Books
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17 Mar. 2011
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8 and up
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13.97 x 2.31 x 20.96 cm
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1568586450
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978-1568586458
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"(A)n impressionistic yet immensely powerful narrative of brutality, corruption and hopelessness."
--The Guardian

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Charles Bowden is a contributing editor for GQ and Mother Jones; he also writes for Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, and Esquire. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bold Type Books; Illustrated edition (17 Mar. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 361 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568586450
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568586458
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.31 x 20.96 cm

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Lisa

Brutal but necessary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2022

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A humble and committed talent giving voice to
the voiceless. An essential work about a part of the world that is in terrible darkness.

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Fascinating subject matter..awful book...

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I made the foolish error of thinking the author was Mark Bowden-whose books such as Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo are meticulous pieces of journalistic writing that retain the excitement of novels. I couldn't wait to read his account of the brutal cartel wars of Juarez and their devastating effect on the city-at one point it achieved the grim accolade of murder capital of the world.
I was stunned to begin reading and find pretentious, poetic musings with haphazard structure. No timeline or details on the groups at play in the Cartel war. Simply meandering gibberish...like a stoned 18 year student thinking he's a 60's Beat Poet writing deep and meaningful prose. What the hell happened to the author??I then realised what a fool I was..the author was Charles, not Mark Bowden.
I am actually angered at the arrogance of the author. He was one of the few American writers to spend large periods of time in Juarez in the period where it became a tragedy of near biblical proportions. He must've accrued the knowledge and information to write an epic account. Instead his arrogance overrides all that
He ignores structured narrative as he feels his aspirations for poetic symbolism are far more important than the events themselves.
I did raise a laugh when he states in this book on drug wars and chaos that he himself has never taken a single drug in his life. Ironic then that his writing resembles a pretentious 4th rate dope infused counterculture advocate from 50 years ago.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2013

Charles Bowden is one of the most important voices writing today and is a voice that needs to be heard. His prose is poetic yet devastating. I have read other books about the current situation in Mexico but none have had such an impact as Murder City. It's written from the heart. It's true journalism.

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Allenian One

Occasionally interesting but mostly just plain pretentious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2011

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Bowden strives so hard for literary power that he forgets that he is essentially a journalist - he doesn't let the protagonists of this tragic story speak for themselves.
I think AManuboy has hit the nail on the head in his review. This book could have been redeemed -partially at least - by many more interviews.

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Murder City by Charles Bowden

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2011

I found this book to be repetitively dull and lacking any depth-it's basically a tedious listing of people murdered in the sphere of drug trafficking in one city.It lacks continuity;I was looking for a some factual insight for the huge number of killings.It's vague and repetitive,and although the details of the deaths are relentless we never get an insight into the why's and wherefores.We have to wait until page 148 where an interview with a sicarrio(assassin) takes place and this is interesting but everything else prior and post is not.
The gist of the book is the police were taking backhanders from the drug lords,then they were ousted by the army and all with the backing of the government.
I might have made an intelligent guess at that before picking up the book.
I read on hoping it would improve but I was disappointed.

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