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Once a king, always a king
the unmaking of a Latin king
By Sanchez, Reymundo
- ISBN
- 978-1-55652-505-6
- Publisher
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 15, 2003
As a sequel to My Bloody Life, Sanchez's memoir of sex, drugs and violence in the Chicago street gang the Latin Kings, the author recounts the hardships of postgang life. He vividly describes the struggle to separate himself from his previous"drunken, drug-crazed, violent" persona. Initially, the temptations of his"past glory" prove irresistible, and while he does not rejoin the gang, he moves back to the 'hood, gets involved with drugs and eventually goes to prison for possession. Incarceration, however, becomes a"bl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
