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

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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.

Hace treinta aÃ±os Piri TomÃ¡s marcÃ³ un hito en la historia de la literatura al escribir el desgarrador recuento de su juventud en las calles del Harlem hispano. He aquÃ la historia de un puertorriqueÃ±o nacido en Nueva York pero considerado un extraÃ±o en un paÃs de habla inglesa; un muchacho de piel oscura cuya familia se niega a reconocer la obvia presencia de su sangre africana. Este testimonio conmovedor de la caÃda de TomÃ¡s en la trampa mortal de las drogas, las peleas callejeras y los robos a mano armada, termina cuando Piri, de veintidÃ³s aÃ±os, es encarcelado por dispararle a un policÃa.

Desde su adolescencia en El Barrio hasta la cÃ¡rcel de Sing Sing, Piri TomÃ¡s ofrece un recuento estremecedor que con voz profunda, muestra pÃ¡gina de pÃ¡gina cÃ³mo aprende a conocerse, a aceptarse y finalmente a tener fe en sÃ mismo. DespuÃ©s de treinta aÃ±os de su primera ediciÃ³n, este clÃ¡sico que describe las condiciones de enajenaciÃ³n y la lucha por sobrevivir de un grupo marginado se publica por primera vez en espaÃ±ol, con nuevas Ãºltimas palabras del autor.

Country	USA
Author	Piri Thomas
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780679776284
ISBN	0679776281
Label	Vintage Espanol
Manufacturer	Vintage Espanol
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	1998-09-14
Publisher	Vintage Espanol
ReleaseDate	1998-09-14
Studio	Vintage Espanol

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