{"product_id":"low-road-isbn-9781496755308","title":"Low Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eFOREWORD BY THE LATE, GREAT DMX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe riveting biography of Donald Goines—one of the most authentic Black voices in American fiction—that explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon and his remarkable legacy in the 50 years since his tragic death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in post-Depression era Detroit to a stable, Catholic, two-parent household, and heir to the family business, Donald Goines was instead drawn to the streets and to the dangerous lure of The Life. No writer would end up capturing it quite like Goines. He knew the hustle intimately: bootlegging, pimping, drugs, prostitutes, gambling, and prison. Inspired by the revolutionary author, Iceberg Slim, Donald drew on his own experiences to drop an astonishing sixteen bestselling novels in three short years, including \u003ci\u003eWhoreson\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDopefiend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaddy Cool\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNever Die Alone\u003c\/i\u003e. Ironically, the criminal world that infused Goines’s brilliant, uncompromised, and redemptive outlet would be the same one to finally snuff him out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this in-depth and updated biography, culled from personal letters, treatments from unwritten books, photographs, and interviews with family members, Eddie B. Allen, Jr. commemorates not only Goines’s compelling life—from his stint in the Air Force as a teen to his criminal career to cult author status—but Goines’s lasting legacy as well. One that resounds with new generations, many of whom are discovering for the first time that he was a true original.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Eddie B. Allen, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLOW ROAD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Eddie B. Allen, Jr. beautifully unravels the tumultuous life of Donald Goines, painting a vivid portrait of the acclaimed author’s journey through hardships and triumphs. Allen’s narrative captivates with its raw honesty and compelling storytelling—a true masterpiece of a biography that sheds light on the complexities of Goines’s life and legacy. \u003ci\u003eLow Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary gem.” \u003cb\u003e—JaQuavis Coleman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A page-turner of a literary biography. Goines was an insider with the soul of an outsider, always studying the details of the ‘street life’ and its inhabitants—as well as the toll it took on his own life and those who loved him. And it is thanks to \u003ci\u003eLow Road\u003c\/i\u003e and the uncommon empathy and diligence of its author that Donald Goines’s struggle is finally laid bare, in its entirety and unvarnished. Eddie B. Allen, Jr. reminds us that Goines’s greatest story was his own life—and both the joys and tragedies that it presented, including a finale and postscript that even its late author wouldn’t have expected.” \u003cb\u003e—C. M. Kushins, author of \u003ci\u003eCooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] comprehensive look at the gritty novelist's own thug life, [\u003ci\u003eLow Road\u003c\/i\u003e] unfolds like a fast-paced thriller that mirrors Goines's popular bestsellers.” \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It is indicative of both the explosive nature of Goines's subject matter and the timidity of the academy that Goines's achievement—selling more than five million books of utterly uncompromised fiction—has received little scholarly attention. Critic Allen's thorough and well-documented study will do much to change that, placing Goines's life and work in a coherent critical, historical and social frame . . . This work argues not only for a serious assessment of what Goines did achieve, but makes us mourn what he never got the chance to.” \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “In an in-depth biography of the original street-fiction author, Donald Goines, Allen examines the life of the late author who influenced all your favorite rappers.” \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Before there was urban fiction there was Donald Goines . . . On the basis of interviews with Goines' family and friends, and correspondence left by the author, Allen offers a portrait of a tortured man who suffered a color complex because of his fair skin, a longing to get beyond the restrictions of race, the pull of a life of crime and violence, and a strangling drug addiction that both inspired and destroyed him. Readers interested in the genesis of urban fiction and hip-hop influences will appreciate this look at an early pioneer.” \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “For readers who are looking for the definitive story of Donald Goines's life, a wonderful addition to their bookshelves about black popular culture and its icons, and simply, a great read, this is the book.” \u003cb\u003e―Black Issues Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Allen illuminates the life and writings of arguably the most influential chronicler of black urban life in the post-World War II era. Goines' legacy is maintained by a hip-hop generation that is just as invisible and ignored. Eddie B. Allen, Jr. . . . thankfully brings that legacy into even sharper focus.” \u003cb\u003e―\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack Voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOUR ANTIE ROSA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Rosa Parks inspired millions of Americans in 1955, including a nine-year-old boy in Arkansas learning about her story. Through the pages of \u003ci\u003eOur Auntie Rosa\u003c\/i\u003e, her family captures the quiet dignity—and commanding conviction—of one of the civil rights movement’s bravest champions.” \u003cb\u003e—President Bill Clinton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “What a joy to discover that Rosa Parks, an international figure and ‘Mother of The Movement,’ was as dignified and heroic a private woman as she was a civil rights icon. This beautiful tribute, lovingly written by family members, completes the picture of a 20th century inspiration. As compelling as what she sat down for on a bus is what she stood for at home.” \u003cb\u003e—Mitch Albom, author of \u003ci\u003eTuesdays with Morrie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe First Phone Call from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEddie B. Allen, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the biographer of Donald Goines with his seminal work, \u003ci\u003eLow Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the Associated Press, \u003ci\u003eMetro Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and BET.com. He lives in Detroit, Michigan, the same city that gave the world Donald Goines. 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