An edition of Down these mean streets (1967)

Down These Mean Streets

A MAN FROM SPANISH HARLEM MAKES YOU LIVE WITH HIM IN HELL "A REPORT FROM THE GUTS HEART... UNDENIABLE POWER." - N.Y. TIMES

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An edition of Down these mean streets (1967)

Down These Mean Streets

A MAN FROM SPANISH HARLEM MAKES YOU LIVE WITH HIM IN HELL "A REPORT FROM THE GUTS HEART... UNDENIABLE POWER." - N.Y. TIMES

  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

A SIGNET/NON FICTION . Y4532. $1.25

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Publisher
Signet
Language
English

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Por estas calles bravas
Por estas calles bravas
1998, Vintage Books
in Spanish - 1st ed. de Vintage español.
Cover of: Down these mean streets
Down these mean streets
1997, Vintage Books
in English - 30th anniversary ed.
Cover of: Down these mean streets
Down these mean streets
1991, Vintage Books
in English - Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Down these mean streets.
Down these mean streets.
1974, Vintage Books, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Down These Mean Streets
Cover of: Down these mean streets.
Down these mean streets.
1970, Barrie & Jenkins
in English
Cover of: Down these mean streets
Down these mean streets
1968, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Down these mean streets.
Down these mean streets.
1967, Knopf
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: Down these mean streets.
Down these mean streets.
1967, Knopf
in English - [1st ed.]

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First Sentence

"I had been walking around since 9 p.m."

Edition Notes

Published in
USA

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10269737M
ISBN 10
0451045327
ISBN 13
9780451045324
Goodreads
1077825

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Work Description

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop.

As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in a new edition.

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I had been walking around since 9 p.m.
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December 17, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 14, 2012 Edited by Francisco A. Rivera I found this cover photo under images of Mr. Piri Thomas. I hope I didn't infringed any rights, but I read this version in high school during the 70's.
December 14, 2012 Edited by Francisco A. Rivera Added new cover
April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record