Mama Black Widow

Mama Black Widow
ISBN-10
039331765X
ISBN-13
9780393317657
Series
Mama Black Widow
Category
African American gays
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Iceberg Slim

Description

A reprint of a novel on pimps and violent crime in 1930s Chicago. The protagonist is Otis Tilson, a black transvestite, and his story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld.

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