Iced Av Ray Shell

<p>Cornelius Washington is brimming with ambition and talent before his life is torn apart by a crack addiction. Taking the form of a diary and written in an arresting stream-of-consciousness style, <i>Iced </i>ponders the gritty realities of Cornelius''s present and past upheavals that have led him here.<br><br><i>Iced </i>paints a portrait of being Black in America and the ways marginalised communities suffer the consequences of shortsighted political policies. First published in 1993, in the wake of the crack epidemic, <i>Iced</i> mixes the syncopated language of the streets with poetry from the heart to take the reader deep into the horrifying world of addiction.</p>