Airtight Willie Me, Iceberg Slim
Airtight Willie Me, Iceberg Slim
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Airtight Willie & Me
The Story of the South’s Black Underworld

Author: Iceberg Slim

Narrator: Cary Hite

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2014

Synopsis

This collection of six gritty tales from the underground is a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them.With tales of slick con men, revenge, a heist gone awry, and more, Robert Beck, the man many know as Iceberg Slim, brings us on a ride through the terrifying urban streets. With the same unforgettable and distinctive prose on display in his other books, Airtight Willie & Me is further evidence that Iceberg Slim was an expert at capturing the language of the streets. Always compelling, sometimes funny, and often bleak, Slim gives us six slices of city life that will leave you thirsting for more.

About Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim  (1918–1992), a.k.a. Robert Beck, was born in Chicago and initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. 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 forty-two. After several stints in jail, culminating in a ten-month stay in Cook County, he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. With a family to feed, he folded his life into the pages of Pimp, which emerged as a definitive chronicle of street life. Slim was catapulted into the public eye as a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. He published six more books based on his life and different aspects of the ghetto black, pimp community. Slim died at age seventy-three in 1992, one day before the Los Angeles riots.

About Cary Hite

Cary Hite has performed in several theaters across the country as a cast member in the longest-running African American play in history, The Diary of Black Men. He also appeared in Edward II, Fences, Macbeth, Good Boys, Side Effects May Vary, and the indie feature The City Is Mine. He has voiced several projects for AudibleKids, including Souls Look Back in Wonder, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, and Papa, Do You Love Me?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy

I didn’t enjoy Slim’s autobiographical novel Pimp: The Story of My Life, but it did have its moments. I’ve got to grips with his style of writing now, and though I am not a fan, he does occasionally come up with some really good passages. At its best it approaches the pulp fiction of the 40s and 50s,......more

Goodreads review by Zoe

all of the Ice man's book are wonderful.. love his style......more

Goodreads review by Tosh

And come to think of it Iceberg Slim maybe America's little brother to Jean Genet. Although not gay, he surely knows the underworld of a big city ghetto and all it horror and desires. Also at one time one can only buy these books in Black neighborhoods or at the local big newsstand. Very rarely do y......more

Goodreads review by Amyr

iceberg slim is the creator of street fiction. he lived that life and captured it in his work. excellent, magnificent, extraordinary!......more

Quotes

“One of the greatest black writers in American history.”

Ice-T

“Iceberg Slim was the godfather of a genre.”

K’wan, #1 bestselling author

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