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Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines

Brand: St. Martin's Press

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UPC:
9780312291242
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2004-10-15
Release Date:
2004-09-23
Author:
Eddie B. Allen
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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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.