Trick Baby
Published on 2. July 2009
288 pages
978-1-84767-771-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...
With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...
Reviews / Votes
One of the most honest and original writers to emerge from the last century, Slim fully earns his place in the canon of America's greatest. -- Helen Walsh Trick Baby is an American classic. * * Publishing News * * Slim always told it as it was, without compromise. -- Irvine Welsh His prose is almost Shakespearean in its inventiveness and his dialogue hums with ghetto jive. * * Scotsman * * Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling. * * Sunday Times * * Iceberg Slim always kept it real. So he will always be relevant. * * Ice T * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-771-6 (9781847677716)
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Robert Beck, who used the moniker Iceberg Slim, was a major-league pimp who enjoyed serious success during the 1940s and 1950s. He decided to leave the pimping game after serving his third and final stretch in jail. He moved to Los Angeles where he straightened out and began a career as a writer. Trick Baby, originally published in 1967, is his second book.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- Chapter One: A Shakedown Squeeze By Dot The Cop
- Chapter Two: Copper Dot's Sucker Ear
- Chapter Three: The Dummy Payoff
- Chapter Four: Flight To Jewtown
- Chapter Five: The Voice Of Satan Cons The Preacher
- Chapter Six: Tears For A Lost Drum
- Chapter Seven: The Big Cruel Windy
- Chapter Eight: White Lamb In The Black Jungle
- Chapter Nine: Flat-Joint Flimflam
- Chapter Ten: A Doll With A Lust For Dames
- Chapter Eleven: Conning In The Spring Tra La Tra La
- Chapter Twelve: Livin' Swell Fats
- Chapter Thirteen: The Goddess
- Chapter Fourteen: The Torturer
- Chapter Fifteen: Buster Bang Bang
- Chapter Sixteen: Rocks For A Gorilla
- Chapter Seventeen: Mr Trick Bag
- Chapter Eighteen: The Haters
- Chapter Nineteen: The Confession
- Chapter Twenty: The Fractured Nude
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Search
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Sister Franklin Snares The Elusive Ear Of God
- Chapter Twenty-Three: The Fleeting Years
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Wedding Bells For A Slick Sucker
- Chapter Twenty-Five: State Street Murder Cross
- Epilog
- Glossary
- 1: Torn From The Nest
- Copyright
