Por Estas Calles Bravas / Down These Mean Streets Paperback - 1998
by Piri Thomas
Still relevant today, Piri Thomas's classic memoir of the "barrio" of SpanishHarlem celebrates its 30th anniversary of publication with a new Introductionby the author.
From the jacket flap
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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- Title Por Estas Calles Bravas / Down These Mean Streets
- Author Piri Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second printing
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language SPA
- Publisher Vintage Espanol, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-09-14
- ISBN 9780679776284 / 0679776281
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Biography, Puerto Ricans - New York (State) - New York
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96053854
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/1999, Page 1583
- Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 0
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