| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 21 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by Kevin Kenerly. |
| Summary |
From one of the most revolutionary writers of the twentieth century comes the uncensored and gritty novel that inspired today's street lit and hip-hop culture. After my ninth birthday, I began to really understand the meaning of my name. I began to understand just what my mother was doing for a living. There was nothing I could do about it, but even had I been able to, I wouldn't have changed it. Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. As a child, he's looked after by his neighborhood's imposing matriarch, Big Mama, while his mother works. At age twelve, his street education begins when a man named Fast Black schools him in trickology. By thirteen, Whoreson's a cardsharp. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded and ruthless, battling to understand and live up to his mother's words: "First be a man, then be a pimp." |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Fiction.
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African American criminals -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Fiction.
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Inner cities -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Fiction.
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Kenerly, Kevin, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781481596657 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1481596659 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11044350 |
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