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Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim is the name Robert Beck used in the ghetto. He was a pimp and this is his story, told without bitterness and with no pretence at moralizing - the smells, the sounds, the fears, the petty triumphs in the world of the pimp.

The Story of My Life

Pimp

Robert Beck

A novel set among the hustlers of southside Chicago tells the story of an extraordinary con artist called "White Folks," a light-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned black man.

Trick Baby

"Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.

Mama Black Widow

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.

Pimp: the Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim's first three novels (Pimp, Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow) offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following.The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, however, proves to be something of a departure in the sense that it is a series of short personal recollections. Make no mistake, the passion, razor-sharp perception and unflinching honesty remains and, if anything, is all the more chilling for its total directness.The wisdom he gained from a life of serious excess and violence is to be found within this varied collection of soul-bearing confessions that reveal why Iceberg Slim has been revered so widely as the spokesman of the street.This edition includes an introduction by Iceberg Slim's widow, Diane Millman Beck.

The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

Airtight Willie & Me

Long White Con

In Iceberg Slim's first novel, Trick Baby, he told the unforgettable tale of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and fair-skinned, White Folks was to become the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned. Long White Con takes up where Trick Baby left off. After the death of his partner and mentor, Blue Howard, White Folks hooks up with the Vicksburg Kid, who completes his con education. Together they form a formidable duo, playing for the highest stakes, pulling off the most ambitious con of the lot - The Unhappy Virgin Game. Fleecing wealthy fools is the name of the game but when the sums involved get to the levels seen in Long White Con, the consequences of any slip can be fatal. Like all of Iceberg Slim's work, Long White Con takes the reader into a world rarely seen in print, combining wicked humour with streetwise knowledge and philosophy. The result is another page-turning classic of hard-boiled fiction.

In this newly discovered work by the late Iceberg Slim, the man who essentially birthed street lit, an LAPD vice detective intent on sweeping away street prostitution and police corruption finds himself up against Shetani (Swahili for Satan), a leading pimp who uses violence and heroin to control his prostitutes.

Shetani's Sister

The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, the sounds, the fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into 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.

Ice T Presents Pimp

Iceberg Slim, best-selling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic. Continuing the saga, Long White Con tells the story of the most incredible con man ever to have risen. Picking up where Trick Baby left off we dive into the world of Johnny O’Brien, better known as White Folks. After learning to use his fair skin to his advantage to rise to the top of the Chicago con game, Folks is back for the big money and the big stakes of the long con. Following the death of his partner and mentor, Blue, Folks takes off for Canada. Having honed his skills and polished his acting, Johnny is done cheating marks out of small money. With a gang of grifters working with him, High Pockets Kate, High Ass Marvel and the Vicksburg Kid among them, Folks is after the biggest score of his life.

The Biggest Score of His Life

Doom Fox is the final instalment in Iceberg Slim's searing sequence of highly-charged books that began with his critically acclaimed and multi-million selling autobiography, Pimp. Slim's powerful, raw prose and eye-opening reflections of black ghetto realities have helped to redefine modern American literature, offering the reader a glimpse into lifestyles and language never before seen in print. Doom Fox tells the tragic story of three generations of the Allen family in post-war L. A. Written with Slim's typically disturbing honesty and sharp humour, it paints their lives with compassion, telling their stories in their own words, in the language of the street. The result is another riveting and potent urban parable, a bitter commentary on a society that has as its core a legalized policy of discrimination.

Doom Fox

Chronicles the clash between Jimmy Collucci, an ambitious member of Chicago's Mafia, and Jessie Taylor, an African American driven by revenge and hatred to destroy Collucci's infamous organization.

A Story of the Mafia

Death Wish

Collects six gritty tales of the street, featuring the lives of hustlers, dealers, and prostitutes.

Jean-François Ménard

Dans le sillage des Black Panthers, la littérature puis le cinéma (avec la blaxploitation ) expriment les révoltes de la communauté noire dès la fin des années 60. On entend enfin la voix d’une Amérique qui n’a plus rien d’un rêve, celle des arnaqueurs, des travestis, des gigolos. En 1969, sort Pimp, autobiographie explosive d’Iceberg Slim (alias Robert Beck) qui devient le proxénète le plus célèbre des États-Unis. Il publie ensuite plusieurs fictions très inspirées de sa vie, dont Trick Baby et Mama Black Widow. Un peu malgré lui, il devient le porte-parole d’une partie du lumpenproletariat noir qui ne se reconnaît pas dans le message politique du Black Power. Dans ses livres, les héros ne refusent jamais une ligne de coke et donneraient tout pour quelques billets. Comme le dit l’auteur lui-même : « Il n’y a pas de psychologie, de sermons ou de notes dans ce récit d’une vie. Les dialogues sont dans la langue crue des pédés, du ghetto noir, du Sud profond, des bas-fonds. »

Pimp, Trick Baby, Mama Black Widow

Night Train to Sugar Hill is a hybrid novel, a mix of hardcore crime fiction, mysticism, L.A. noir, literary naturalism, and street literature. It is one of the two final novels of black American writer Iceberg Slim.

Night Train to Sugar Hill

In a classic urban-fiction tale, a light-skinned, blue-eyed black con man nicknamed "White Folks" plans his most ambitious caper. Reissue.

Iceberg Slim

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