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Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 10:25 am: | 
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I'm reading 47th STREET BLACK, a first novel by Chicago native/writer Bayo Ojikutu. Anyone else reading it? It is an arty sort of Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim type thing about Black street hustlers working for the Chicago Mob in the 60's and 70's. |
Tee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 11:43 am: |
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I picked this up the other day and put it back down...please let me know how it is.
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Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 01:10 pm: |
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If you don't like PIMP, THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by Iceberg Slim, or DOPEFIEND by Donald Goines, or almost almost anything by James Ellroy after and including the L.A. Quartet, this ain't for you.
I can't say that I loved it, enjoyed it or even recommend it to anyone but lovers of the hardest hardboiled crime fiction--the heroes are dopedealers and murderers--the anti-est of anti heroes, who gleefully participate in the destruction of their friends and acquaintances, their families and communities in the service of Italian gangsters--there is some good writing here, however. I wonder if the author will stay in this genre or move on.
I think it might be of interest to Chicago natives, and would be interested in finding out from any of them what reception the book has gotten in Chicago and how factual it is. |
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