Deep down dark the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine, and the miracle that set them free

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.

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Main Author: Tobar, Héctor, 1963-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:First editon.
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Summary:A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
Physical Description:x, 309 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780374280604 (hardcover)
0374280606 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Héctor Tobar was born in 1963 in Los Angeles, California. He received an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine and became a reporter with the Los Angeles Times in the 1980's. Along with a team of writers, he was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the L.A. riots in 1992.

He has written both fiction and non-fiction works. His novels include The Tattooed Soldier and The Barbarian Nurseries, which won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. His non-fiction works include Translation Nation and Deep Down Dark.

(Bowker Author Biography)