Robert Beck, who used the moniker Iceberg Slim, was a major-league pimp during the '40s and '50s. He decided to leave the pimping game having served his third and final stretch in jail. He moved to Los Angeles where he straightened out and began a career as a writer. Pimp was originally published in 1967.
Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of
storytelling
* * Sunday Times * *
Slim always told it as it was, without compromise
*IRVINE WELSH*
Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality
and violence
* * The Times * *
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
* * Big Issue * *
Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the
thief
* * Washington Post * *
Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale
of ferocious emotion, expressed through action
* * Q magazine * *
Iceberg Slim always kept it real. It is blatant, uncompromising,
and as close to the truth as you can get without going there
yourself
*Ice-T*
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