With books such as Trick Baby, Pimp, and Long White Con, Iceberg Slim detailed life in the American ghetto and became one of the secret inventors of the concept of cool. Ignored by the mainstream literary world, advertised by word of mouth, his underground classics crystallized the mixture of attitude and artistry that is found everywhere from blaxploitation to Bad Lieutenant, punk to hip-hop. Doom Fox -- written in 1978 and unpublished until now -- is the last in his legendary series. It is set in Los Angeles during the postwar decades and evokes a world of low-riding chippie-catchers,...
With books such as Trick Baby, Pimp, and Long White Con, Iceberg Slim detailed life in the American ghetto and became one of the secret inventors of t...
The author's first three novels offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following. This book however, proves to be something of a departure in the sense that it is a series of short personal recollections.
The author's first three novels offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their reflection of society's unde...