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Iceberg Slim
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…
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‘Slim belongs to the knuckleduster-in your-face school of storytelling.’ The Sunday Times
Iceberg Slim, bestselling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic. Continuing the saga begun in Trick Baby, Long White Con tells the story of the…
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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…
This novel charts the rise 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 white-skinned…
Originally published: Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House, 1977.
This collection of six gritty tales from the underground is a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them.
With tales of slick con men, revenge…
The true story of the world’s most iconic pimp Iceberg Slim.
‘Slim always told it as it was, without compromise’ - Irvine Walsh
‘Slim belongs to the knuckleduster-in-your-face school of storytelling’. Sunday Times
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…
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…
Iceberg Slim’s last published novel.
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Iceberg Slim is the name Robert Beck used as a pimp in the ghetto. This is his story, told without bitterness and with no pretence at moralizing - the smells…
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 seething…
A reissue of the cult classic; the perfect partner to Pimp
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…
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…
The perennial cult classic, introduced by Irvine Welsh.
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Justin Gifford
Gifford patiently crafts a narrative that shows how Beck, a Chicago pimp, became the godfather of hip-hop, an integral cog in Hollywood’s Blaxploitation era and one of the most-read black…
