Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Book Author

SKU: 9780802141446 Categories: ,

$17.00

In stock

Purchase & earn 170 points!

Description

Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott’s memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000 copies in print in the United States alone. After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name “Monster” for committing acts of brutality and violence that repulsed even his fellow gang members. When the inevitable jail term confined him to a maximum-security cell, a complete political and personal transformation followed: from Monster to Sanyika Shakur, black nationalist, member of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, and crusader against the causes of gangsterism. In a document that has been compared to The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, Shakur makes palpable the despair and decay of America’s inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience today.

Additional information

Weight 0.7 lbs
Dimensions 9 × 6 × 1.1 in
Book Author

Date Published

June 29, 2004

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

400

Publisher

Grove Press

Year Published

2004

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member”