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by "Iceberg Slim" (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Payback Press; New edition edition (1 Jan 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862415942
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862415945
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 91,798 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This novel charts the rise of White Folks, a white negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks was a successful con man, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survived.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant novel with excellent charcters., 19 Oct 1999
After reading Iceberg Slim's autobiographical "Pimp" I couldn't wait to read more. Trick Baby, set in Chicago in the 30's tells the story of Whitefolks and his mentor Blue as two conmen trying to survive. What I found remarkable about this book and others written by Slim is the sheer honesty that comes from each page. He deals with subjects neglected by almost everybody else in the U.S. His books are of major importance and deserve to be read by a much wider audience.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Long Con, 26 Jan 2007
By J. Newman "james_newman99" (Thailand) - See all my reviews
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Ice Berg Slim is a true master of the word. His dialogue is dazzling. His cast so real you can almost touch them. "Pimp" is the book to start with, but Trick Baby is just as good and stands alone as a brilliant example of American writing.
Trick Baby is a term used for the offspring of a black prostitute who has given birth to a baby who is half white. The baby of a white John (client of the prostitute) is considered a trick baby. Half black. Half white.
After his mother is gang raped and put into a secure mental hospital, White Folks (trick baby) falls into the company of Blue, a grifter con-man who teaches Folks the art of Con. How to hustle for money in downtown Chicago. Folks has an advantage as he looks like a peckerwood (white man) Blue and Folks play the con and earn lots of money on the grifter circuit.
They play to close to danger and the con catches up with them.
Quote from Trick Baby. Folks and Blue talk about religion.
Blue: "My conviction is that God never existed. I believe the Bible was written by the slickest bunch of peckerwood grifters that ever crapped between two sandals" .... Brilliant!
Read this book.
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