Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp - Softcover

Goines, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870679546 ISBN 13: 9780870679544

Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co, 1995

Synopsis

Born and bred to the violent life of ghetto prostitution, the son of a beautiful Black prostitute and an unknown john, Whoreson Jones thinks he has it all figured out--until his self assurance is shaken by betrayal

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan. He joined the U.S. Air Force instead of going into his family’s dry cleaning business. Following his service, he entered into a life of drug addiction and crime. He received seven prison sentences, serving a total of over six years. While he was in prison, Goines wrote his first two novels, Dopefiend: The Story of a Black Junkie and Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp. Goines was shot to death in 1974.

Review:

''All those [other black] writers, no matter how well they dealt with black experience, appealed largely to an educated, middle-class, largely white readership. They brought news of one place to the residents of another. Goines' novels, on the other hand, are written from ground zero. They are almost unbearable. It is not the educated voice of a writer who has, so to speak, risen above his background. It is the voice of the ghetto itself.'' --Village Voice, praise for the author

About this edition

• Publisher: Holloway House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870679546
• ISBN 13: 9780870679544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319