Low Road : The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1496755308
ISBN-13
9781496755308
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
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Kensington Publishing
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 2025
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
224 grams
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18.90 x 17.90 x 2.50 cms
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Biography: general
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FOREWORD BY THE LATE, GREAT DMX
The riveting biography of Donald Goinesone of the most authentic Black voices in American fictionthat explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon and his remarkable legacy in the 50 years since his tragic death.
Born in post-Depression era Detroit to a stable, Catholic, two-parent household, and heir to the family business, Donald Goines was instead drawn to the streets and to the dangerous lure of The Life. No writer would end up capturing it quite like Goines. He knew the hustle intimately: bootlegging, pimping, drugs, prostitutes, gambling, and prison. Inspired by the revolutionary author, Iceberg Slim, Donald drew on his own experiences to drop an astonishing sixteen bestselling novels in three short years, including Whoreson, Dopefiend, Daddy Cool, and Never Die Alone. Ironically, the criminal world that infused Goiness brilliant, uncompromised, and redemptive outlet would be the same one to finally snuff him out.
In this in-depth and updated biography, culled from personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and interviews with family members, Eddie B. Allen, Jr. commemorates not only Goiness compelling lifefrom his stint in the Air Force as a teen to his criminal career to cult author statusbut Goiness lasting legacy as well. One that resounds with new generations, many of whom are discovering for the first time that he was a true original.
The riveting biography of Donald Goinesone of the most authentic Black voices in American fictionthat explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon and his remarkable legacy in the 50 years since his tragic death.
Born in post-Depression era Detroit to a stable, Catholic, two-parent household, and heir to the family business, Donald Goines was instead drawn to the streets and to the dangerous lure of The Life. No writer would end up capturing it quite like Goines. He knew the hustle intimately: bootlegging, pimping, drugs, prostitutes, gambling, and prison. Inspired by the revolutionary author, Iceberg Slim, Donald drew on his own experiences to drop an astonishing sixteen bestselling novels in three short years, including Whoreson, Dopefiend, Daddy Cool, and Never Die Alone. Ironically, the criminal world that infused Goiness brilliant, uncompromised, and redemptive outlet would be the same one to finally snuff him out.
In this in-depth and updated biography, culled from personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and interviews with family members, Eddie B. Allen, Jr. commemorates not only Goiness compelling lifefrom his stint in the Air Force as a teen to his criminal career to cult author statusbut Goiness lasting legacy as well. One that resounds with new generations, many of whom are discovering for the first time that he was a true original.
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