One of the most honest and original writers to emerge from the last century, Slim fully earns his place in the canon of America's greatest. -- Helen Walsh Trick Baby is an American classic. * * Publishing News * * Slim always told it as it was, without compromise. -- Irvine Welsh His prose is almost Shakespearean in its inventiveness and his dialogue hums with ghetto jive. * * Scotsman * * Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling. * * Sunday Times * * Iceberg Slim always kept it real. So he will always be relevant. -- Ice T
Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive. With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the most influential writers of our age.'Irvine WelshTrick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive.With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far . . .'Trick Baby is an American classic.'Publishing News'His prose is almost Shakespearean in its inventiveness and his dialogue hums with ghetto jive.'Scotsman'Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling.'Sunday Times'Iceberg Slim always kept it real. So he will always be relevant.'Ice T. Artikel-Nr. 9781847674319
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