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Low road : the life and legacy of Donald Goines / Eddie B. Allen, Jr. ; [foreword by DMX].
Van Pelt Library PS3557.O33 Z46 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Eddie B., Jr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goines, Donald, 1937-1974.
- Goines, Donald.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- African American criminals.
- African American novelists--Biography.
- African American novelists.
- African American criminals--Biography.
- African Americans in literature.
- Inner cities in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Crime in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Life and legacy of Donald Goines
- Legacy of Donald Goines
- Donald Goines
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Donald Goines was a pimp, a truck driver, a heroin addict, a factory worker, and a career criminal. He was also one of world's most popular Black contemporary writers. Having published 16 novels, including Whoreson, Dopefiend, and Daddy Cool, Goines's unique brand of "street narrative" and "ghetto realism" mark him as the original street writer. Now, in the first in-depth biography of Goines's life, author Eddie B. Allen explores exactly how one man could make the transition from street hustler to bestselling author. With exclusive access to personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and family members, Allen uncovers Goines's personal experiences with drugs, prostitutes, prison, and urban violence. Fans of Goines's novels will note a dramatic parallelism between his life and his fictional tales.--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- Prelude: Death in Retrospect
- Maturing
- War
- Dope Fiend
- Cash and Bitches
- The Joint
- Publisher
- West Coast
- Prodigal Son
- Legacy: An Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-208).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0312291248
- 9780312291242
- OCLC:
- 56610506
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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