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Bezig met laden... Whoreson (editie 2007)door Donald Goines (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Donald Goines takes the reader into the violent world of ghetto prostitution. Whoreson Jones, the novel's hero, is the son of a beautiful black prosititute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a fully- fledged pimp, cold blooded, ruthless. Written in gritty street talk, Whoreson's story affords a startling glimpse into the hell of the inner city, yet bristles with bitter humor and defiant pride. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century comes the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today's street lit and hip-hop culture. After my ninth birthday, I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to understand just what my mother was doing for a living. There was nothing I could do about it, but even had I been able to, I wouldn't have changed it. Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. As a child, he's looked after by his neighborhood's imposing matriarch, Big Mama, while his mother works. At age twelve, his street education begins when a man named Fast Black schools him in trickology. By thirteen, Whoreson's a cardsharp. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded and ruthless, battling to understand and live up to his mother's words: "First be a man, then be a pimp." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Whoreson Jones is a mutt his whorish mama slipped and got caught with. And she's pretty pissed he came out a boy and light like the white men she can't stand spreading her legs for. So he grows up in a ghettoized version of a whore house (that ain't a house but apartments rented by his mother's co-workers) learning the pimping and whoring game from her. Then as a tween he learns how to hustle cards and hood games. Then his mother dies and he embarks on a mission to be the baddest player that ever walked the planet, until not heeding his mother's tutelage makes him slip, fall, and he can't get his game back up.
And in true Goines fashion, no one gets out alive. ( )