Whatever it was was lost as Sebastian hit him on the chin with a Golden Award Statue for Sales that had been perched, pride of place, on his desk. It knocked him back against the board of projected sales for the first quarter.
Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga of wannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of sin and depravity: Hollywood.
In the preface, Slim says it best, “In this book, I will take you, the reader, with me into the secret inner world of the pimp.” An immersive experience unlike anything before it, Pimp would go on to sell millions of copies, with ...
He ain't no hot-sheet Nigger preacher but he's here. 'He pimped up his scratch ... I guess the first prison rap started to hack away at my belief in him. ... Lord, if the Bible is really your divine book then I know it's a sin to pimp.
Iceberg Slim is the name Robert Beck used in the ghetto. He was a pimp and this is his story, told without bitterness and with no pretence at moralizing - the smells, the sounds, the fears, the petty triumphs in the world of the pimp.
Beck's first book is told without bitterness and,with no pretense at moralizing. the smells,sounds, fears and petty triumphs of the world of,the street pimp, are brought alive in this debut,novel.