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Iceberg Slim
‘Slim belongs to the knuckleduster-in-your-face school of storytelling’. Sunday Times
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‘Iceberg Slim is a major creative influence on so many musicians and writers working outside the bland mainstream. Too often, this cultural icon for our times has been criminally ignored.’…
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…
Robert Beck, the man known as Iceberg Slim, brings readers on a ride through the terrifying and elusive urban streets. Filled with unforgettable and distinctive prose, Airtight Willie & Me…
‘Slim always told it as it was, without compromise’ - Irvine Walsh
‘Slim belongs to the knuckleduster-in your-face school of storytelling.’ The Sunday Times
Iceberg Slim’s last published novel.
Iceberg Slim, bestselling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic about the most incredible con man ever to have risen. Picking up where Trick Baby…
Iceberg Slim, aka Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and was initiated into the life of the pimp at age 18. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but…
Iceberg Slim,Iceberg
Originally published: Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House, 1977.
A reissue of the cult classic; the perfect partner to Pimp
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…
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…
With books such as Trick Baby, Pimp and Long White Con , Iceberg Slim detailed life in the American ghetto. Doom Fox –written in 1978 and unpublished until now–is the…
The perennial cult classic, introduced by Irvine Welsh.
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