Free PDF Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim
However right here, we will show you amazing point to be able always read the book Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim wherever and whenever you happen and also time. Guide Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim by just can help you to understand having guide to read each time. It will not obligate you to always bring the thick e-book anywhere you go. You could merely maintain them on the kitchen appliance or on soft data in your computer to always review the room at that time.
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim
Free PDF Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim
Superb Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim book is always being the most effective pal for investing little time in your office, night time, bus, and also all over. It will certainly be a good way to simply look, open, as well as check out the book Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim while because time. As known, encounter and skill do not constantly had the much cash to obtain them. Reading this publication with the title Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim will certainly allow you know more points.
Checking out routine will certainly constantly lead people not to satisfied reading Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim, a publication, 10 e-book, hundreds e-books, and also more. One that will make them feel completely satisfied is finishing reviewing this publication Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim and getting the notification of the publications, after that finding the other following e-book to review. It continues more and also more. The time to complete reviewing a book Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim will be constantly numerous depending upon spar time to invest; one example is this Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim
Now, how do you recognize where to get this publication Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim Never ever mind, now you may not go to the e-book store under the bright sun or night to browse guide Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim We below consistently assist you to find hundreds type of book. Among them is this publication entitled Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim You might go to the link page supplied in this set then choose downloading. It will certainly not take more times. Merely connect to your net accessibility and also you can access the publication Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim online. Obviously, after downloading and install Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim, you might not print it.
You could save the soft documents of this book Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim It will certainly rely on your downtime and also activities to open and also review this publication Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim soft data. So, you may not hesitate to bring this publication Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), By Iceberg Slim almost everywhere you go. Just include this sot data to your device or computer system disk to allow you review every time and also everywhere you have time.
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.
- Sales Rank: #699576 in Books
- Brand: Slim, Iceberg/ Gifford, Justin (INT)
- Published on: 2015-08-04
- Released on: 2015-08-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.01" h x .78" w x 5.13" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Review
Praise for Iceberg Slim and Pimp: The Story of My Life:
"What shines through is one man's desperate attempt to be something, no matter how sad that something appears to us. And it is literature. It has influenced thousands of young Americans... We don't need to idolize him but we do need to respect him as a writer who told what he knew of the truth."
--Sapphire, in her 1998 introduction to�Pimp
"The works of Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim, have made a powerful impact on our global cultural landscape and should be essential reading. We have to get beyond his life as a pimp, and accept him as one of the most influential writers of our age."
--Irvine Welsh,�The Guardian
''One of the greatest black writers in American history.''
--Ice-T
"The capitalist's manifesto."
--Dave Chapelle
"All the questions of life can be answered if you read this book."
--Chris Rock
"Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief."
--The Washington Post
About the Author
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.
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A brilliant and complex novel, with all the street punch of Iceberg Slim's best work
By Aaron C. Brown
I respect the other reviewers who were disappointed that this book lacked some of the jazzy poetry, authenticity and energetic variety of Iceberg Slim's earlier works. However I think it is the equal of Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow (Slim's most famous book, Pimp is autobiography can can't be easily compared to the crime novels). What Shetani's Sister lacks in vitality, it makes up in literary complexity. Classic Slim books inspired blaxploitation movies of the 70s, this one is more in the spirit of Hong Kong gun fu movies of the 80s and early 90s.
Shetani's Sister alternates chapters between two parallel characters, Los Angeles vice cop Russell Rucker and New York superpimp Albert Spires (known as "Master Shetani," shetani comes from the Arabic word for "adversary" which is more appropriate in this context than its English cognate "Satan"). Both lost the most important women in their lives to cancer, and nearly suffered breakdowns as a result. Both are betrayed by their most trusted subordinate, and both suffer from addictions (Rucker to alcohol, Spires to heroin) and barely controlled violence.
Rucker is restrained from by abyss, barely, by the memory of his father and the ballast of three prior generations of honest cops. At a key moment, "his dead father's voice roared inside his head like a proclamation from the heavens. 'Russell, laddie, you're the family's fourth generation cop. You'll be just fine with God and yourself, inside and out, if you never kill anybody out of hatred or anger. Laddie, only take a human life when you can't avoid it or your own life is directly in danger.'" Spires didn't know his father and murdered his mother. Her voice sounds in his head only with insults and threats. Nothing restrains Spires but his inhumanly controlled personality, and that eventually cracks.
The story has psychological depths in addition to complex narrative structure. The straight characters are tormented by loneliness, overwork and boredom, which lead to violence and corruption. The criminals have a richer and more human existence, but their world is fragile due in equal measure to its inherent corruption and to external violence. Even at the highest levels of success, its inhabitants are insecure and vulnerable. Religion plays a murky but important role, it can be a source of great strength to those who embrace it humbly and without doctrine, but in organized form, it is pure evil.
Although this book is more mature and literary than Iceberg Slim's earlier novels, it has some structural faults. It reminds me of the original Scarface, a story that builds brilliantly but kills off too many characters to have a satisfying ending. Just as Tony Camonte swaggers boldly through that movie, but ends up crying piteously, "Don't shoot....I don't got nobody....I'm all alone," Albert Spires (whose prostitutes call him "Daddy") finishes with, "'Mama! Mama! Please let me in! Please, Mama,' he begged piteously, in a child's voice."
This is a great novel by one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. It's definitely X-rated for sex, violence, violent sex, sexualized violence, language, corruption and extremely pervasive drug use. But it has a deep authenticity, for all its exaggeration, and it tells a complex and subtle story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Fate and the master pimp
By TChris
Shetani's Sister is the creation of Iceberg Slim (the street name of Robert Beck). According to Justin Gifford's introduction, Iceberg Slim spent much of his life as a pimp. His autobiography and crime stories were culturally influential in a way that mirrors gangster rap in the evocation of life on the street. In fact, Gifford credits Iceberg Slim for influencing early rappers, including Snoop Dogg, whose voice I kept hearing in my head as I read the novel. Previously unpublished, Shetani's Sister is Iceberg Slim's final novel.
Shetani's Sister tells a story of pimps, whores, and crooked cops. The primary character, a New York pimp named Shetani (whose name means Satan in Swahili), doles out heroin and cocaine to assure that his whores continue to worship him. Shetani is a Master Pimp and the police are no match for him. Yet Iceberg Slim's portrayal of police officers, while not ignoring LAPD's tendency toward brutality, is surprisingly sympathetic.
Shetani sends his bottom girl, Petra, to LA to expand his empire of whores. There she meets Jerry Crane, a vice cop with a coke habit who helps her avoid arrest in exchange for a regular supply of coke, sex, and cash. Crane finds himself with a problem (one of many) when his honest partner, Russell Rucker, begins to suspect that Crane has traveled to the dark side.
Shetani's Sister tells a compelling story despite its shortcomings. The novel has moments that are too melodramatic. The prose is unpolished and occasionally clich�d (although less clich�d than the prose of some established authors I've encountered). Iceberg Slim's similes sometimes stretch too far over-the-top in an effort to be luridly descriptive, but the same could be said of Mickey Spillane, whose writing I enjoy as a product of its time. The treatment of women is also the product of a time and subculture, although the tone is much more respectful when it addresses older women and faithful wives.
The story's glorification of Shetani (presumably as a stand-in for the author) is laughable, but I had the same reaction to Lou Dobbs' novel that glorifies an obvious stand-in for Lou Dobbs. A key difference between the two novels is that Iceberg Slim's struck me as honest. Shetani doesn't hide his flaws. He makes mistakes and he isn't afraid to admit them. In fact, being the baddest pimp on the planet clearly has an adverse impact on Shetani's mental health (or maybe it's the constant drug use).
At one point, a vice detective comforts another character by saying "nobody bucks fate." At a funeral, the same detective says "don't judge him harshly, for a victim lies within us all." Those may be the points Iceberg Slim intended to make in this novel. The pimps, the whores, the drug addicts, the crooked cops ... all suffered personal tragedies that played a role in shaping their lives. Yes, they made choices, and yes, they told themselves a lot of lies to justify their actions, but fate might still be the best explanation for their tragic lives. In any event, Iceberg Slim's exploration of that topic -- the thin and oft-crossed line between good and evil -- demonstrates more insight than many crime writers who wield more sophisticated prose are able to manage.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Solid Iceberg Slim Novel
By Brian J. Greene
A newly unearthed novel by Iceberg Slim is big news in the world of street lit, as he was one of the masters in the genre. Shetani's Sister is exactly the kind of novel one would expect from Slim. It involves pimps, the women who work for them, cops both straight and crooked, drugs, violence, sex, life on the streets in both Harlem and South Central L.A. ... The writing is hard, mean, no-nonsense, and explicit when it comes to sex and violence. One aspect I especially liked was the character depth shown when one vice squad cop is faced with a moral and professional crisis when he realizes an old friend and colleague on the force has gone crooked, doing drugs and working to help a pimp and his hookers not to get busted. I'll hold off on plot description here, as that can be obtained above. If you know and appreciate Iceberg Slim's work, you will enjoy this book. If you haven't read Slim but like Blaxploitation movie fare, Tarantino films like Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction, or just gritty inner city crime fiction in general...this is probably a good one for you, as well. I enjoyed it but am giving it only four rather than five stars simply because while I found it to be a solid work of street lit, I have read similar novels that are a little better.
See all 21 customer reviews...
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim PDF
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim EPub
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim Doc
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim iBooks
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim rtf
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim Mobipocket
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim Kindle
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim PDF
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim PDF
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim PDF
Shetani's Sister (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), by Iceberg Slim PDF
