Pimp: The Story Of My Life
- 3 Oct 2019
- 9781786896124
- £10.99
- 304 pp
- 129×198mm
- 12 Feb 2009
- 9781847674753
- £8.79
- 304 pp
In a few words
The perennial cult classic, introduced by Irvine Welsh
In a few words
New edition of the perennial cult classic with a specially commissioned introduction by Irvine Welsh
Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling
Slim always told it as it was, without compromise
Irvine Welsh
Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling
Slim always told it as it was, without compromise
Irvine Welsh
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the book
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals 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 men in 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.
More about
the book
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.
Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality and violence
This brutally honest memoir . . . is as shocking today as ever. A precursor of forty years of black-street culture, this is uncompromising and harrowing, but a landmark book nonetheless
Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief
Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale of ferocious emotion, expressed through action
Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality and violence
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
Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief
Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale of ferocious emotion, expressed through action
