Pimp: The Story Of My Life
Iceberg Slim
16 €
Coup de coeur
(Beat Generation), by Vasiliki
| Robert Beck, a young boy from Milwaukee yearns to make it BIG! His starting point is Chicago, specifically in the gritty South Side where Robert will earn the name Iceberg Slim. In his own words.. "The account of my brutality and cunning as a pimp will fill many of you with revulsion, however, if one intelligent, valuable young man or woman can be saved from the destructive slime; then the displeasure I have given will have been outweighed by that individual’s use of his potential in a socially constructive manner." |
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the streets.
A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.
Publisher: Canongate Books
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Oct 2019
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
ISBN: 9781786896124
