Goines takes the reader into the violent world of ghetto prostitution. Whoreson Jones, the novel’s hero, is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded, ruthless. Written in gritty street talk, Whoreson’s story … [Read more...]
DOPEFIEND by Donald Goines
For twenty-three years of his young 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 … [Read more...]
