- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton (July 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393316645
- ISBN-13: 978-0393316643
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.1 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 150 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,147,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Goines manages to walk the line between heartfelt sentiment and melodrama. Best of all, he fully explores the complex inter-relationships of his characters. And don't worry, there is still plenty of tough gangsta stylin' and explosive violence to make hard-core gangsta rappers look like stone-cold punks. -- Quarterly Black Review, Dominic Ali
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This marks the first appearance in trade paperback of any book by a writer who is a star in inner cities and whose novels have sold an incredible five million copies. Goines was never more hard-boiled than he is here, in this almost Shakespearean revenge fantasy about a hitman whose icy heart melts when his beloved daughter is lured astray by a smooth-talking pimp.
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LARRY JACKSON, BETTER known as "Daddy Cool," stopped on the litter-filled street in the town of Flint, Michigan. Read the first page
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LARRY JACKSON, BETTER known as "Daddy Cool," stopped on the litter-filled street in the town of Flint, Michigan. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Donald Goines Was So Talented,
By N. Powell "topazzz6" (Albany,NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daddy Cool (Mass Market Paperback)
What an excellent pageturner. What a talented author Donald Goines was He will be missed.This was a great story about a father and daughter relationship that anyone could relate to rich or poor. How sad when a parent raises their child to be the best and then that child falls victim to the streets or to the world. Many parents that were raised poor or in the ghetto think if they give their child everything they didn't have as a child their child will end up succeeding but in reality that doesn't always happen. What the parent is doing is setting that child up to fail. What an enlightening read.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Daddy Cool a street book.,
By warren (nassau community collage) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daddy Cool (Mass Market Paperback)
I give the book "Daddy Cool by Donald Goines five stars. "Daddy Cool" is a realistic getto fiction book that is about a ruthless hitman who would do anything to keep his daugther from staying a prostitute. what is good about "Daddy Cool"is your not forced to read it because once you read one page your going to read other pages and before you know it you have finished the book. "Daddy Cool" is a fiction book but ther are some events in the book that can really happen. I was so satisfy with the book "Daddy Cool" that I went on to read more of Donald Goines books. so far I have read "Crime Partners" and "Street Players".
5.0 out of 5 stars
Daddy Cool,
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This review is from: Daddy Cool (Mass Market Paperback)
Daddy Cool was one of the greatest books i have every read. There was sooo much killing. But that wasn't the main reason this book was good, I give this book five stars because of it imagery.The whole time I was reading this book I felt like I was there. Like when he made a murder it felt like I was watching it the whole time. Orlike when the author discribe how Daddy Cool looked, I could see him perfectly in my head. This book had so much detail that it felt like I was watching it on T.V. I would recommend this book to anybody who thinks they are a gansta. The only thing that could of made this book better was if Daddy Cool used more guns to kill people instead of knives.
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