Piri Thomas Dies

The author of the 1967 best seller, Down These Mean Streets, a memoir of growing up in New York City’s barrios, died at his home in California at age 83.

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The most well-known of his books, Down These Mean Streets is still available from Vintage.

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas
Retail Price: $13.95
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage – (1997-11-25)
ISBN / EAN: 0679781420 / 9780679781424

As well as in Spanish,

Por estas calles bravas
Piri Thomas
Retail Price: $15.95
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage – (1998-09-14)
ISBN / EAN: 0679776281 / 9780679776284

Also still available is a collection of his stories.

Stories from El Barrio
Piri Thomas
Retail Price: $19.95
Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Freedom Voices Pubns – (2005-12-15)
ISBN / EAN: 0915117118 / 9780915117116

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