for one hellish, destructive fragment of a pounding, torturous instant!"") capture a core of unsentimental truth not just about homosexuality in the ghetto but also about the myths and travails of masculinity itself. 2 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified With books such as Trick Baby, Pimp, and Long White Con, Iceberg Slim detailed life in. ![]() It ain't pretty, but Slim's bracing ghetto melodrama and famously histrionic voice (""But she hesitated. Meanwhile, the secret gay life that sets Otis apart from them is an endless nightmare of rapes, beatings and failed attempts at heterosexual love. Unable to provide for his family, Otis's father declines into alcoholism while the family founders, with Otis's doomed sisters and brother drifting into prostitution and petty crime. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. At its core is the archetypal African American story: Otis Tilson's family moves from the rural South to the urban promised land of Chicago only to find more racism, abysmal slums and demeaning, low-paying jobs. This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. Catapulted into the public eye, Slim became a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. Before he became a writer Beck was a manager of prostitutes, or a pimp for nearly 30 years. Product Details Resources and Downloads The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim Robert Becks Real Story By Iceberg Slim LIST PRICE 5. 1 His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim. Clark Decem October 21, 1974) was an African-American writer of urban fiction. ![]() At one time he was said to be the best-selling African American novelist ever. In this blog entry, Justin Gifford, author of Pimping Fictions, explains how he came to tell the story of African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing In my journey to uncover the life and works of Robert Beck (aka Iceberg Slim) I have made many surprising discoveries along the way. Kenyatta series ( Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta's Escape, Kenyatta's Last Hit) Black Gangster. Now Old School Books has reissued his remarkable fictional memoir of a Chicago drag queen coming of age during the 1930s and '40s. Robert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, sold more than six million books before he died in 1992. A pimp who began writing in prison, Slim (Pimp: Story of My Life) filled his stories with the intricacies of pimping, drug dealing, numbers running and all manner of urban hustling, and between the mid-1960s and the mid '70s became the bestselling black novelist in American history.
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