An edition of Down these mean streets (1967)

Down these mean streets.

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An edition of Down these mean streets (1967)

Down these mean streets.

[1st ed.]
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

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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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
333

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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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Edition Notes

Autobiographical.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301.451/67/97471
Library of Congress
F128.9.P8 T5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 333 p.
Number of pages
333

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17756772M

Excerpts

I had been walking around since 9 p.m.
added anonymously.

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