Trick Baby: The Biography of a Con Man
by Slim, Iceberg
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
312 pages. HH-151; 95 cents on cover. First printing (stated). A very good copy in wrappers (mass market paperback). Spine creased; some creasing to covers (paperback).
Synopsis
This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in south side Chicago where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned. Trick Baby tells the story of âÈêWhite Folks,âÈë a blue-eyed, light-haired, con-artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a âÈêTrick Baby,âÈë the child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. What happens next is not to be believed. Only Slim could bring us the story of a hustler, forced to learn the game and rise to the top. ItâÈçs SlimâÈçs story and he tells it in the only way he knows how, in the language of the streets.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361558
- Title
- Trick Baby: The Biography of a Con Man
- Author
- Slim, Iceberg
- Format/Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Holloway House
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- mf23
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN;
Terms of Sale
Downtown Brown Books, ABAA
About the Seller
Downtown Brown Books, ABAA
About Downtown Brown Books, ABAA
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