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Donald Goines

    15 décembre 1936 – 21 octobre 1974

    Donald Goines était un auteur prolifique de littérature de rue, dont les œuvres crues et brutes capturaient les réalités de la vie dans les centres-villes américains. Ses romans, souvent situés à Detroit, Los Angeles ou New York, offraient des explorations incisives de thèmes tels que la drogue, le crime et les tensions raciales. Goines utilisait magistralement un langage viscéral et un rythme rapide pour créer des récits captivants qui reflétaient ses propres expériences. Par son écriture, souvent rédigée sous le pseudonyme d'Al C. Clark, il présentait une vision du centre-ville comme un champ de bataille où les personnages luttaient pour le pouvoir et la survie.

    Kenyattas letzter Hit
    Whoreson
    Black Gangster
    Black Girl Lost
    Dopefiend
    • Black Gangster

      • 319pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      A story of black organized crime follows Prince from his beginning as a teenage ganglord to his position as head of Detroit's powerful mob.

      Black Gangster2007
    • Whoreson

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      The novel presents a raw and unfiltered narrative that captures the essence of urban life, influencing contemporary street literature and hip hop culture. Its revolutionary approach and vivid storytelling reflect the struggles and realities faced by marginalized communities, making it a significant work that resonates with modern readers and artists alike.

      Whoreson2007
    • Dopefiend

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      For twenty-three years of his life Donald Goines lived in the dark, despair-ridden world of the junkie. It started while he was doing military service in Korea and ended with his murder at the age of thirty nine. He had worked up to a hundred dollars a day habit and out of the agonizing hell came Dopefiend. It is the shocking nightmare story of a black heroin addict. Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend- both handsome, talented, and full of promise- are inexorably pulled into death of the hardcore junkie!

      Dopefiend2007
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    • Black Girl Lost

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience-the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl s soul! Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. The she met Chink and discovered love and affection...and rape and murder!

      Black Girl Lost2006