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Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas
Down These Mean Streets Book PDF

Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0679732381

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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.

Down These Mean Streets

Keith R. A. DeCandido
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Author : Keith R. A. DeCandido
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416509684

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The amazing adventures of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man continue in this all-new novel. A new designer drug with physically altering side effects sweeps through New York, leaving behind utter chaos. As Spider-Man stumbles onto the drug's origin, he almost must face one of his most fearsome enemies. Original.

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go

Philip Durham
Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go Book PDF

Author : Philip Durham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807840270

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Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler's Knight

You Can't Win

Jack Black
You Can t Win Book PDF

Author : Jack Black
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486826806

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You Can't Win by Jack Black Pdf

"Much of this book is about loneliness. Yet its pages are bracingly companionable. It is one of the friendliest books ever written. It is a superb piece of autobiography, testimony that cannot be impeached. While it is a statement of an American tragedy, it has laughter, brevity, style; as a book to pass the time away with, it is in a class with the best fiction." — Carl Sandburg, New York World "Nothing half as rewarding has come down the highway of books about thieves, tramps, murderers, bootleggers and crooks in years " — New Republic "I believe Jack Black has written a remarkable book; it is vivid and picturesque; it is not fiction; it is a book that was needed and it should be widely read." — Clarence Darrow, New York Herald Tribune A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this lost classic was written by Jack Black, a drifter and small-time criminal. Born in 1872, Black hit the road at the age of 16 and spent most of his life as a vagabond. In this plainspoken but colorful memoir, he recaptures a hobo underworld of the early twentieth century, a time when it was possible to pass anonymously from town to town. Black's firsthand accounts of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction offer a compelling portrait of life outside the law and honor among thieves.

Mean Streets

Jim Butcher,Kat Richardson,Simon R. Green,Thomas E. Sniegoski
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Author : Jim Butcher,Kat Richardson,Simon R. Green,Thomas E. Sniegoski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440699948

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Mean Streets by Jim Butcher,Kat Richardson,Simon R. Green,Thomas E. Sniegoski Pdf

Four bestselling fantasy authors present a collection of novellas about dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s—featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a story in which Harry Dresden—Chicago's only professional wizard—tries to protect a friend from danger and ends up becoming a target himself... John Taylor is the best PI in the secret heart of London known as The Nightside. He can find anything. But locating the lost memory of a desperate woman may be his undoing in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green... National bestselling author Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a job in Mexico goes awry, and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark family secrets and revenge from beyond the grave... An ancient being that lived among humanity for centuries is dead, and fallen angel-turned-Boston detective Remy Chandler has been hired to find out who—or what—murdered him in a whodunit by national bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski...

Down These Mean Streets

Piri Thomas
Down These Mean Streets Book PDF

Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040155965

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Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Pdf

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.

Seven Long Times

Piri Thomas
Seven Long Times Book PDF

Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016285616

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Seven Long Times by Piri Thomas Pdf

Wounded and arrested while committing an armed robbery, Thomas begins his long seven years of incarceration first in the prison ward at Bellevue and then in Sing Sing and Great Meadows (Comstock). Thomas' great heart and tough street philosophy face off lyrically with the brutality of guards, the sterility of steel and cement, the perversity fostered on both sides of the bars by incarceration. Seven Long Times is the critically-acclaimed sequel to Thomas' classic of urban and prison literature, Down These Mean Streets.

Stories from El Barrio

Piri Thomas
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Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631680717

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In these eight stories Piri Thomas takes us with him into El Barrio—Puerto Rico in New York City—and recreates the scenes he knows so well from his own childhood. He leads us through streets teaming with life, up crumbling front stoops, down dark hallways, into crowded rooms, and into the hearts and minds of his people. He takes us into the ring for a hard-fought boxing match and out of the city on a Boy Scout outing. He sits us in the barber’s chair and right under the burning scalp of a kid getting his hair straightened. He puts us into a boy’s mind for a wild fantasy trip, and into the heart of a sixteen-year-old trying to impress a pretty girl. He draws vivid stories from his part experiences and makes us feel what it means to be poor and proud and generous; to be streetwise and full of bravado but frightened, too; to struggle to go straight; to be ashamed of being ashamed; to dream. Piri Thomas, who reached thousands of readers with his bestselling autobiography, Down These Mean Streets, now gives young readers a vivid slice of the life in El Barrio—a place where people face their problems with energy, ingenuity, and love. Speaking in the voice of the streets and from his heart, he captures their spirit, their laughter, and their hope.

Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand

Piri Thomas
Savior Savior Hold My Hand Book PDF

Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000525607

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Savior, Savior, Hold My Hand by Piri Thomas Pdf

"Many people write about the ghetto. Piri Thomas lived there. In this book, the author of 'Down these mean streets" tells what he found when he returned from a seven-year prison term. Friends dying on heroin, or getting rich selling it. Jobs he couldn't get, not because he lacked training or ability, but because the union was only open to whites. And an indomitable aunt who brought him to her church, where he met the woman who became his wife, and where he began to take an interest in helping others."--Jacket.

Down These Strange Streets

George R. R. Martin,Gardner Dozois
Down These Strange Streets Book PDF

Author : George R. R. Martin,Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101544594

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Down These Strange Streets by George R. R. Martin,Gardner Dozois Pdf

In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear... In “Death by Dahlia,” #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers to a lavish party that turns deadly. And with so many creatures of the night in attendance, Dahlia will have a hard time identifying the most likely suspect! #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs thrills in “In Red, with Pearls,” as a werewolf PI races to crack a case involving zombies, witches, and the most horrifying creatures of them all—lawyers. In “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon follows Lord John as he journeys to the beautiful but faintly sinister island paradise of Jamaica, where he’s soon investigating a mystery with no shortage of spiders, snakes, revolutionaries, and, of course, zombies. With these and thirteen more original tales, Down These Strange Streets takes you to the cities where fantasy and mystery collide and where private eyes who have seen it all find something lurking that is stranger still...

Mean Streets

Peter McSherry
Mean Streets Book PDF

Author : Peter McSherry
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550024029

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Peter McSherry recounts tales of his 30 years of driving cabs on the hard-bitten streets of Toronto.

The Midnight Ride Of Jonathan Luna

William Keisling
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Author : William Keisling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1882611187

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The Midnight Ride Of Jonathan Luna by William Keisling Pdf

In the Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna, writer William Keisling reconstructs the last hours of an American public servant. It's a shocking, true-life, murder mystery whodunit that you'll never forget.

Mean Streets

John Hagan,Bill McCarthy
Mean Streets Book PDF

Author : John Hagan,Bill McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052164626X

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Mean Streets by John Hagan,Bill McCarthy Pdf

About youth crime and homelessness in Canada.

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir

J.M. Redmann,Greg Herren
Women of the Mean Streets Lesbian Noir Book PDF

Author : J.M. Redmann,Greg Herren
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602825383

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Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir by J.M. Redmann,Greg Herren Pdf

Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners. These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

Short Eyes

Miguel Piñero
Short Eyes Book PDF

Author : Miguel Piñero
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781429952217

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Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and to create a semblance of community. When a young white prisoner accused of child molesting is thrown into the cell block by a guard who says he belongs in Sing Sing because "the men up there know what to do with degenerates like you," the stage is set for an explosive series of events; for, among prisoners, this child molester called "short eyes" is the lowest of criminals.