Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines

[A] comprehensive look at the gritty novelists own thug life (Low Road) unfolds like a fast-paced thriller that mirrors Goiness popular bestsellers.--Essence magazine. Donald Goines was a pimp truck driver heroin addict factory worker and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary writers having published sixteen novels including Whoreson Dopefiend and Daddy Cool. Goiness unique brand of street narrative and ghetto realism mark him as the original street writer. . Now in the first in-depth biography of Goiness life author Eddie B. Allen Jr. explores exactly how one man made the transition from street hustler to bestselling author. With exclusive access to personal letters treatments from unwritten books photographs and family members Allen uncovers Goiness experiences with drugs prostitutes prison and urban violence. Fans of Goiness novels will note a dramatic parallelism between his life and fictional tales.