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Down These Mean Streets (Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition)

by Piri Thomas

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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 an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.

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medulla42, November 7, 2009 (view all comments by medulla42)
Down These Mean Streets is an example that everything is not back and white. It captures you while Piri Thomas discovers that while he grows up in "el barrio", to his 7-month stint down south, to his epiphanny in prison. A genuine case of someone truly finding themself.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780679781424

Author:

Thomas, Piri

Publisher:

Vintage Books

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Biography

Subject:

Specific Groups

Subject:

Sociology - Urban

Subject:

United States - State & Local

Subject:

Sociologists

Subject:

New York (N.Y.) Biography.

Subject:

United States - State & Local - General

Subject:

Specific Groups - General

Subject:

Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York.

Subject:

Biography - General

Subject:

Biography-Literary

Copyright:

1997

Edition Number:

13

Edition Description:

Anniversary

Series:

Vintage

Publication Date:

19971131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

352

Dimensions:

7.96x5.32x.77 in. .58 lbs.

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