- Pimps, Biography, African Americans, Fiction
This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Iceberg Slim, Beck, Robert, Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Holloway House Publishing Company, Urban Audiobooks and Blackstone Audio, Holloway House Pub.
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781451617146
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