Iceberg Slim

Robert (Iceberg Slim) Beck's first book is told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing. It is the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs in the world of the street pimp.

A novel set among the hustlers of southside Chicago tells the story of an extraordinary con artist called "White Folks," a light-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned black man.

The Naked Soul searches the artist's soul in a collection of personal essays that are full of passion and razor sharp perception.

"White Folks," a light-skinned, blue-eyed black con man, plans his most ambitious caper.

When it comes to 'hos' and the men who run them, when it comes to intriguing and super paced rivalry between ambitious pushers and dealers who sell dreams in a blizzard of white powder, when it comes to knowing the streets, it takes a real player and that player is Robert Beck. For more than two decades, Beck, writing as Iceberg Slim has fascinated or horrified readers of his books and stories. Beck doesn't create superflies ans superhos; he gives the reader real live people- people with hopes and fears who cough, breath and bleed and who have grabbed the only ticket they can find out of misery but the ticket is often a one way trip into hell and suffering. This anthology of stories by Beck is a monument to the courage of the people of the streets. Some of them make it; most don't. Laugh along with them; cry when they cry; hurt when life turns against them.

A novel of the clash between Jimmy Collucci, an ambitious member of Chicago's Mafia, and Jessie Taylor, an African American driven by revenge and hatred to destroy Collucci's infamous organization.

Doom Fox is the last in Iceberg Slim's legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, Doom Fox is a tale of the Los Angeles ghetto that begins just after World War II and spans the next thirty years. In the no-holds-barred tradition of Chester Himes, Doom Fox captures a violent, vivid world of low-riding chippie-catchers, prizefighters, prostitutes, and smooth-talking preachers.

From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Angeles' meanest, toughest streets.Here is the newly discovered novel by Iceberg Slim, the creator and undisputed master of African-American "street literature," a man who profoundly influenced hip hop and rap culture and probably has sold more books than any other black American author of the twentieth century (not that he saw the royalties from those sales). In many ways Iceberg Slim's most mature fictional work, Shetani's Sister relates, in taut, evocative vernacular torn straight from the street corner, the deadly duel between two complex Sergeant Russell Rucker, an LAPD vice detective attempting to clean up street prostitution and police corruption, and Shetani (Swahili for Satan), a veteran master pimp who controls his stable of whores with violence and daily doses of heroin.

The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor, and race, Iceberg Slim brings us three legendary tales. As real as you can get without jumping in, Pimp is the story of Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all too familiar for today’s black community. Trick Baby brings us the story of a hustler who doesn’t just play the con game, he transforms it. Continuing the saga, Long White Con tells the story of the most incredible con man ever to rise and the schemes that would take him to the top. “Iceberg Slim was the Godfather of a genre.” —K’wan, #1 bestselling author “One of the greatest black writers in American History.” —Ice-T “The best known pimp of our time.” —Hollie West for The Washington Post

Meet Iceberg Slim, author of "Pimp: The Story Of My Life," which sold over six million copies. "Reflections" is the poignant and memorable recounting of many of his true life experiences.

1969. L'Amérique découvre Pimp, autobiographie explosive signée Iceberg Slim (alias Robert Beck). Il devient le proxénète le plus célèbre des Etats-Unis. Un peu malgré lui, Slim est propulsé au rang de porte-parole indigne de la communauté noire, dans la lignée des Black Panthers. Suivront Trick Baby et Marna Black Widow, textes très inspirés de son histoire qu'on peut lire comme des témoignages édifiants ou des romans noirs au charme brut. Les "héros" de Slim sont arnaqueurs, travestis ou gigolos. Ils ne refusent jamais une ligne de coke et sont prêts à tout pour quelques dollars. "Il n'y a pas de psychologie, de sermons ou de notes dans ce récit d'une vie. Les dialogues sont dans la langue crue des pédés, du ghetto, du Sud profond, des bas-fonds", affirme Slim lui-même. Livres de chevet de toute une génération de rappeurs ou d'écrivains comme Sapphire ou Maya Angelou, ces trois livres fondateurs ont d'abord paru aux Editions de l'Olivier dans la collection Soul Fiction, dirigée par Samuel Blumenfeld. Réunis pour la première fois en un seul volume, ils constituent une sorte de "trilogie du ghetto" unique dans la littérature américaine.

1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug -- a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack laced with cyanide, a gang member is shot down in the streets, a mother is murdered by her alcoholic husband, and a major drug dealer is killed by an ordinary man fed up with the drug game. Set on L.A.'s meanest, toughest streets and never published until now, Night Train to Sugar Hill is one of Iceberg Slim's two final novels. It is his most personal work of political fiction, an epic tragedy where no one escapes from the deadly orbit of the drug crisis and the police repression that follows. Baptiste O'Leary, an old ex-con who is Slim's alter ego, calls for political action against the militarized police raiding black communities and greater compassion for those caught in the drug's web, like his own daughter Opal. Iceberg Slim's novels have never been easily digestible, but they have always been true. Night Train to Sugar Hill is no exception, offering us Slim's end-of-life vision, with him looking back over his abusive childhood, his career as a criminal, and his later years as a family man. Set against the backdrop of an America where its so-called dream is more of a nightmare and its underclass is deliberately preyed upon, Night Train is ultimately a hybrid novel, a mix of hardcore crime fiction, mysticism, L.A. noir, literary naturalism, and street literature.

Additional photos are included in this Kindle edition. STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES Iceberg Slim gives unprecedented insight into his incredible life as a pimp, when he played God to hundreds of women, in this collection of rare interviews. In his forties Iceberg Slim became a legendary storyteller of another kind. As the USA’s best-selling black author he was read by millions. He lectured at colleges, advising students to learn from his mistakes and lead socially constructive lives. He influenced artists such as Ice-T, Donald Goines, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z. In this book Iceberg speaks unflinchingly, sharing his qualified and valuable perspective on important sex, drugs, racism, crime, prison, politics, family and writing. Inside, Icebergs fascinating life as a writer, father and husband is also revealed for the first time in exclusive frank interviews with his daughter Misty Beck, and Bentley Morriss of Holloway House Publishing in Los Angeles. These interviews are complimented by rare photos and must-read articles about Iceberg Slim. Including the real story behind a chapter of The Naked Soul, written especially for this book by acclaimed anthropologist Richard Milner (Black Players).

Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN supplied individually by publisher and as per cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively:Trick Baby: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.The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim:Iceberg Slim's first three novels (Pimp, Trick Baby, and Mama Black Widow) offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following.Pimp: The Story of My Life: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.

Robert (Iceberg Slim) Beck's first book is told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing. It is the smells, the sounds, the fears and the petty triumphs in the world of the street pimp.