DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS

作者: Piri Thomas 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 1997-11

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780679781424

定价: 121.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 大32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 340页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

　　Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with thislacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets ofSpanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a PuertoRican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in afamily that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was anunsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolationsof drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that endedwhen the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting acop.

As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in ElBarrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes ofself-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives usa book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every pagebears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty yearsafter its first appearance, this classic of manhood,marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in ananniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
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　　Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with thislacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets ofSpanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a PuertoRican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in afamily that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was anunsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolationsof drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that endedwhen the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting acop.

As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in ElBarrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes ofself-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives usa book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every pagebears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty yearsafter its first appearance, this classic of manhood,marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in ananniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.

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