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Down These Mean Streets par Piri Thomas
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Down These Mean Streets (original 1967; édition 1997)

par Piri Thomas

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"A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." --The New York Times Book Review 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.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Down These Mean Streets
Auteurs:Piri Thomas
Info:Vintage (1997), Paperback, 352 pages
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Mots-clés:chicano studies, puerto rico, urban life, drugs, autobiography, crime

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It's one of those books I pick up for motivation and to get an understanding about life in New York before my time. ( )
  lifeofabastard | Jan 6, 2018 |
Its a very good book however, if you have already read "Manchild in the promised land" by Claude Brown do, not read this book. You might feel as I did in that you might find you're just reading a Latino version. ( )
  a1abwriter | Sep 25, 2012 |
Coming of age in Spanish Harlem that resulted in violence and prison.
  goneal | Dec 1, 2011 |
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The book Down These Mean Streets was about a young boy Piri (who is also the author) growning up in the streets of New York, exspecially Harlem. It talks about how since he was a dark skinned Puerto Rican, and at that time if you were black you were seen as nasty and a outcast to everyone. So what Piri had to do was make a name for himself everytime they moved to a new neighborhood. There family was very poor and the dad worked very hard and was very abusive to the children. Piri always felt that there dad seemed to always blame everything on him. During the corse of the book he goes through drufs, drinking, moving away, a death, sex ect.
Piri always felt he had to prove something to someone. He was a very weak minded person, meaning that under peer pressure he would do anything. Which i do not relate to but i do know the feeling of being asked to do something you know is bad. To describehis character in a few words it would be,"loving, scared, and lost." at the beginning of the book he had a lot of friends because the neighborhood they lived in was also Puerto Ricans. But when he moved into other races neighborhoods, such as the Italian neighborhood he moved into the first day he was there he got jumped by three Italian kids for his skin color. After this he fought to get his respect and it seemed to get the respect from all of the block his family had to move.
something i didn't like about this book is that they talk too much in spanish. they have a dictionary in the back for this, but it sucks having to go in the back and look up a word.
if i was to recommend this book to anyone i would recommend it to my cousin and my friend Adam because both have read a book by Piri Thomas. ( )
  jmendoza | Oct 8, 2008 |
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"A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." --The New York Times Book Review 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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