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"One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels" (Playboy), Old School Books "is subtly transforming the landscape of post-war black fiction" (Bomb).
"Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.
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This book tell the story of an incredible, comely and tragic homosexual queen.
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A pimp who began writing in prison, Slim (Pimp: Story of My Life) filled his stories with the intricacies of pimping, drug dealing, numbers running and all manner of urban hustling, and between the mid-1960s and the mid '70s became the bestselling black novelist in American history. Now Old School Books has reissued his remarkable fictional memoir of a Chicago drag queen coming of age during the 1930s and '40s. At its core is the archetypal African American story: Otis Tilson's family moves from the rural South to the urban promised land of Chicago only to find more racism, abysmal slums and demeaning, low-paying jobs. Unable to provide for his family, Otis's father declines into alcoholism while the family founders, with Otis's doomed sisters and brother drifting into prostitution and petty crime. Meanwhile, the secret gay life that sets Otis apart from them is an endless nightmare of rapes, beatings and failed attempts at heterosexual love. It ain't pretty, but Slim's bracing ghetto melodrama and famously histrionic voice ("But she hesitated... for one hellish, destructive fragment of a pounding, torturous instant!") capture a core of unsentimental truth not just about homosexuality in the ghetto but also about the myths and travails of masculinity itself.
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- Publisherdistributed by All America Distributors
- ISBN 10 0870671766
- ISBN 13 9780870671760
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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Mama Black Widow
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Holloway House HH-176, Los Angeles, 1969
ISBN 10: 0870671766
ISBN 13: 9780870671760
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Seller: Augustine Funnell Books, Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ron Wolin (cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Paperback original. Slim/Beck/Moppins presents "a chronicle of Negro ghetto life which should be recognized as the most vivid and important ever published. Beck's premise is that hatred is as destructive to those who hate as it is to those who are hated. His life on Chicago's Southside lends ample authority to his writing." 313 pages + seven pages of advertisements for other Holloway House publications. A bit of edge-/corner wear, moderate handling wear, tanning. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 018544
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ISBN 13: 9780870671760
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First Edition. True first printing, with all points (stated First Printing, HH-176 to cover), of Slim's pulp classic. Worn about edges, with small closed tears (.25") to middle of fore edges of front and rear wraps; some creasing, soiling; binding and spine sound and uncreased; pages and inside wraps age-toned. Very Good, Perfect-bound duodecimo in decorative type wraps. 312pp, [1], [7]pp advertisements. Seller Inventory # 2337
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