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Shetani's Sister

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Availability:In StockContributor:Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford (Foreword by)Series:Vintage Crime/Black LizardPublish date:2015-08-04Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage Crime/Black LizardISBN-13:9781101872598ISBN-10:1101872594UPC:9781101872598Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, HumorousBook Topic:Urban & Street Lit, Mystery & Detective, Black HumorSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCDF9GSM6G
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 anitheroes: 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage Crime/Black LizardISBN-13:9781101872598ISBN-10:1101872594UPC:9781101872598Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, HumorousBook Topic:Urban & Street Lit, Mystery & Detective, Black HumorSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCDF9GSM6G
Iceberg Slim, also known as Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and was initiated into the life of the pimp at age 18. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping until he was 42. After several stints in jail he decided to give up the life and turned to writing, crafting most famously his autobiographical classic, Pimp: The Story of My Life. He died in 1992.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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