Description
ISBN: 0802141447
Title: Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Author: Shakur, Sanyika
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Edition: First Edition. Third Printing.
Book Condition: VG
Comments: Minor wear to back cover.
Synopsis: 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.
