Pimp

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BIOGRAPHY PIMP is the life story of the man known as Iceberg Slim. It is a completely frank story, told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing. This is unlike any book ever published. No one before has dared to tell such a story. No one who hasn't lived as a pimp could possibly imagine the smells, the sounds, the fears, the petty triumphs: The world of the pimp. Of the pimps who don't die in prisons, or in insane asylums, or who aren't shot down in the street-none has ever written his life story before. But Iceberg Slim miraculously managed to shake the dope habit and to free himself from the life he lived and breathed for over twenty years, and he now has given us the truth about the life of a pimp. Iceberg Slim started out in life with two strikes against him: He was poverty stricken in a world where money determines a man's worth; and he was a Negro in a white society. But, in his favor, he was young, he was handsome, and he had a superior IQ. He was too ambitious... Tovább

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BIOGRAPHY PIMP is the life story of the man known as Iceberg Slim. It is a completely frank story, told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing. This is unlike any book ever published. No one before has dared to tell such a story. No one who hasn't lived as a pimp could possibly imagine the smells, the sounds, the fears, the petty triumphs: The world of the pimp. Of the pimps who don't die in prisons, or in insane asylums, or who aren't shot down in the street-none has ever written his life story before. But Iceberg Slim miraculously managed to shake the dope habit and to free himself from the life he lived and breathed for over twenty years, and he now has given us the truth about the life of a pimp. Iceberg Slim started out in life with two strikes against him: He was poverty stricken in a world where money determines a man's worth; and he was a Negro in a white society. But, in his favor, he was young, he was handsome, and he had a superior IQ. He was too ambitious and had too much determination to accept his inferior status. There were only two avenues open to him: Crime or pimping. Either choice was disastrous. He chose pimping as the lesser of two evils-a way of gaining an income and some degree of status without totally destroying all his sense of humanity or losing his own self-respect entirely. Finally, after twenty years of a life in Hell, he managed to escape through the love of a woman, and to make it in the square world. No other book comes anywhere near this one in its description of the raw, brutal reality of the jungle which lurks beneath the surface of every city. Vissza