Pimp: The Story of My Life - Softcover

Slim, Iceberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847673325 ISBN 13: 9781847673329

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2009

Synopsis

The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives to becoming a giant of the streets.

A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.

About this title

Review:

"Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling" (Sunday Times)

"Slim always told it as it was, without compromise" (Irvine Welsh)

"Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality and violence" (The Times)

"This brutally honest memoir . . . is as shocking today as ever. A precursor of 40 years of black-street culture, this is uncompromising and harrowing, but a landmark book nonetheless" (Big Issue 2009-03-02)

"Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief" (Washington Post)

"Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale of ferocious emotion, expressed through action" (Q magazine)

"Iceberg Slim always kept it real. It is blatant, uncompromising, and as close to the truth as you can get without going there yourself" (Ice T)

Book Description:

New edition of the perennial cult classic with a specially commissioned introduction by Irvine Welsh

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847673325
• ISBN 13: 9781847673329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320