Customer Reviews
Long Con - By: J. Newman, 26 Jan 2007 
Ice Berg Slim is a true master of the word. His dialogue is dazzling. His cast so real you can almost touch them. "Pimp" is the book to start with, but Trick Baby is just as good & stands alone as a brilliant example of American writing.
Trick Baby is a term used for the offspring of a black prostitute who has given birth to a baby who is half white. The baby of a white John (client of the prostitute) is considered a trick baby. Half black. Half white.
After his mother is gang raped & put into a secure mental hospital, White Folks (trick baby) falls into the company of Blue, a grifter con-man who teaches Folks the art of Con. How to hustle for moneyin downtown Chicago. Folks has an advantage as he looks like a peckerwood (white man) Blue & Folks play the con & earn lots of money on the grifter circuit.
They play to close to danger & the con catches up with them.
Quote from Trick Baby. Folks & Blue talk about religion.
Blue: "My conviction is that God never existed. I believe the Bible was written by the slickest bunch of peckerwood grifters that ever crapped between two sandals" .... Brilliant!
Read this book.
A brilliant novel with excellent charcters. - By: darrenmorman@hotmail.com, 19 Oct 1999 After reading Iceberg Slim's autobiographical "Pimp" I couldn't wait to read more. Trick Baby, setin Chicagoin the 30's tells the story of Whitefolks & his mentor Blue as two conmen trying to survive. What I found remarkable about this book & others written by Slim is the sheer honesty that comes from each page. He deals with subjects neglected by almost everybody elsein the U.S. His books are of major importance & deserve to be read by a much wider audience.
