{"product_id":"down-these-mean-streets-a-memoir-anniversary","title":"Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir (Anniversary)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDown These Mean Streets: A Memoir (Anniversary)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePiri Thomas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780679781424\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003eThirty 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.\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir (Anniversary) | Piri Thomas | Paperback | 9780679781424 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1765625","offer_id":49375042076824,"sku":"1765625","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71Zh6Ve5-9L.jpg?v=1783004923","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/down-these-mean-streets-a-memoir-anniversary","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}