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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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Por estas calles bravas
1998, Vintage Books
in Spanish
- 1st ed. de Vintage español.
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Down these mean streets
1997, Vintage Books
in English
- 30th anniversary ed.
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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
February 1, 1971, Signet
Paperback
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