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Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive.

With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...



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One of the most honest and original writers to emerge from the last century, Slim fully earns his place in the canon of America's greatest. -- Helen Walsh
Trick Baby is an American classic. * * Publishing News * *
Slim always told it as it was, without compromise. -- Irvine Welsh
His prose is almost Shakespearean in its inventiveness and his dialogue hums with ghetto jive. * * Scotsman * *
Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling. * * Sunday Times * *
Iceberg Slim always kept it real. So he will always be relevant. -- Ice T

Trick Baby

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      Publisher Canongate Books
      Published 2 July 2009
      ISBN-13 9781847674319
      978-1847674319
      ISBN-10 1847674313
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive.

      With his partner Blue, an old hand who teaches him the tricks of the trade, White Folks rises to the top of his profession. The cons he pulls off get more and more lucrative and dangerous until one day they go too far...



      Trade Review
      One of the most honest and original writers to emerge from the last century, Slim fully earns his place in the canon of America's greatest. -- Helen Walsh
      Trick Baby is an American classic. * * Publishing News * *
      Slim always told it as it was, without compromise. -- Irvine Welsh
      His prose is almost Shakespearean in its inventiveness and his dialogue hums with ghetto jive. * * Scotsman * *
      Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling. * * Sunday Times * *
      Iceberg Slim always kept it real. So he will always be relevant. -- Ice T

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