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Down These Mean StreetsThirty 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
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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/25/1997
ISBN: 9780679781424
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.77d
Review Citations: School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 50
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Love this bedframe!
Size: Queen, Color: Walnut
Delivered earlier promised! :)
Went easily together, the directions were spot-on!
No need for a boxspring, but if you have one? It just makes the bed a bit higher.
Just the style per the picture
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2026
★★★★★ 3
Beware of sharp corners
Size: Twin, Color: Walnut
Cut your on corners very sharp easy to assemble. I think you need boxspring
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Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2026
★★★★★ 2
Flimsy
Size: Full, Color: Walnut
Design which reduces size of box it's needed to ship in results in a frame that doesn't feel durable in the slightest. Sub par compared to other frames at similar price point.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2026
★★★★★ 5
High quality product
Size: Twin, Color: White
High quality!! It was exactly what I was looking for.
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Broke nearly immediately
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Terrible. Broke after a month or so of normal use. DO NOT BUY
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