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

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member  
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Author(s) Sanyika Shakur
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Memoir
Publisher Grove Atlantic Books
Penguin Books (original trade paperback publication)
Publication date May 1993
Media type Print (Hardcover
Trade paperback)
ISBN 9780871135353 (hardcover)
9780140232257 (original trade paperback)
9780802141446 (trade paperback reprint)
Dewey Decimal 364.1/092 B 21
LC Classification HV6439.U7 L774 1993
Followed by T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. (2008)

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member is a memoir about gang life written in prison by Sanyika Shakur.

In 1992 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove Atlantic Inc., announced that he had acquired world publication rights to Shakur's memoir, setting off a storm of interest in the book as an authentic document of the urban African-American experience. A convention-goer from Sweden was quoted as saying: "We see so much of the violence of the American inner city; now here's a voice that comes from inside that can explain it to us." The rights to publish in at least seven foreign countries were quickly sold.[1]

It was published to mostly positive critical reception. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times Book Review praised Shakur's "quick, matter-of-fact prose" and wrote that his violent life was "memorably depicted."[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Horowitz, Mark (December 1993). "In Search of Monster". The Atlantic Monthly (The Atlantic Monthly Group). http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199312/monster. Retrieved 2008-03-04. 
  2. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (2008-02-26). "However Mean the Streets, Have an Exit Strategy". New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/books/26kaku.html. Retrieved 2008-03-04. 
  3. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (1993-07-23). "Illuminating Gang Life in Los Angeles: It's Raw". New York Times Book Review. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DF1539F930A15754C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-03-04. 

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