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Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim

✍ Scribed by Gifford, Justin

Book ID: 109017922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 7 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780385538343

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✦ Synopsis

**The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, n e Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture. You can't understand contemporary black (and even American) culture without reckoning with Iceberg Slim and his many acolytes and imitators. **
Literature professor Justin Gifford has been researching the life and work of Robert Beck for a decade, culminating in Street Poison , a colorful and compassionate biography of one of the most complicated figures in twentieth-century...

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