Shetani's Sister

Name: Shetani's Sister
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Iceberg Slim
ISBN: 9781501908231

Author: Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford

Narrator: Korey Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/25/2015

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Urban, Mystery & Detective, Humorous Fiction

Synopsis

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.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on February 14, 2024

The list of Great Black American Crime writers is a long and honored one, and it’s getting longer, especially with a growing number of female black crime writers. Chester Himes, Robert Beck, Walter Mosley, SA Cosby, and Rachel Howzell Hall are just a few of the well-known black authors you will find......more

Goodreads review by Don on November 01, 2015

(3) Wow, what a storyteller! This is old school, down in the dirt, blacksploitation stuff. Those old movies should have had Iceberg Slim as their screenwriter because this one is just plain wild and wooly. A really crazy bad guy running a stable of drug addicted girls gets into it with his own head......more

Goodreads review by Lekeisha on June 11, 2015

Read full review HERE Have you ever read a book that tests your limits? Like…. this book is some heavy s**t! Seriously! It’s centered around murder, prostitution, drugs, adultery, corruptness, and anything else you may want to tack on. Trust me, you will find something of everything in this book. I w......more

Goodreads review by Mrs Tupac on January 11, 2019

My first read by the legendary IceBerg Slim. The foreword was also good b/c I had no clue about Mr.Slim's back story. From the first page I knew this book was going to be a page - turner. I really found no likeable characters. As an alpha woman myself I felt angry seeing how these women were so weak......more

Goodreads review by XxTainaxX on August 08, 2015

Iceberg Slim's writing just pulls you into this taboo world. There's something about the rawness of it all that hooks the readers. I enjoyed reading this story very much and all the twists and turns kept me on my toes. The pace is amazing down to the very end where you can't help but groan in frustr......more