Iceberg slim pimp 20137/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Giving Henry a weak excuse that they will return again soon, Slim's mother packs up Iceberg and meets up with Steve. Slim's mother, however, falls in love with a scoundrel named Steve. Henry reciprocates the affection and loves Iceberg and his mother immensely. Henry is the only father figure Iceberg has in his lifetime and is the best person in his life. Slim and his mother move to Indianapolis afterwards and a man visiting his relatives, Henry Upshaw, immediately falls in love with Slim's mother. He is left alone with a babysitter named Maude who sexually abuses him when he is only 3 years old. From then on, his mother tries to raise him on her own, but since there is only one parent and she is responsible for supporting them both, Slim is often left alone as a child. As an infant, his father becomes enraged and slams his body against a wall, walking out on the family. Originally, Slim is little more than a con man in the streets, but after learning and listening from the other men in the jail who used to be pimps, he is enticed and decides to take on that lifestyle for his own.Īs soon as Slim is born, he has problems. He recounts his childhood and the choices he made that led him to become a pimp at the age of nineteen, after a stint in jail. Ultimately, Slim's novel is a book about the choices a black man has in the world before desegregation. Through various events in his life, he ultimately becomes a pimp in between jail stints. It'd be very nice if someone were to donate a few copies, but it can't be me.I have no money.In his book Pimp: The Story of My Life, Iceberg Slim recounts his personal autobiography as a intellectually-gifted teenager growing up in the world before desegregation. If one is unwilling to illegally download a book like this, it is actually still possible to purchase a used copy.easily.Īt any rate, I highly recommend obtaining a copy through some other method than through the archive, as much as I love the archive. I now have two different copies (in case one has errors that the other doesn't), and have removed myself from the list, which will bring some people a few days closer.but it'll still take them years to get it. Perhaps I shouldn't do this, but it crossed my mind that there might be a faster way to get at it. Realistically, each person checking it out will likely spend at least a few days with it before returning it, so I would have had to wait for more like five or six years.or more. If you look at it like this-if each person takes it and returns it in one day, I'd have had to wait nearly two years for it. So, seeing it in the archive, I thought I'd get on the waiting list.and even stayed there for a few days. ![]() It strikes me as believable in various ways, but I've always wondered how much truth there really is. ![]() I read this decades ago, but it was someone else's copy. Urn:oclc:476852362 Scandate 20110829051502 Scanner Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) OL16031937W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.75 Pages 326 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:087067417X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:01:59 Boxid IA121107 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Los Angeles, Calif. ![]()
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