White boys and river girls : [electronic resource] stories / by Paula K. Gover.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: 225 p. ; 19 cmISBN:- 1565120493
- 9781565120495
- 813/.54 20
- PS3557.O919 W45 1995
- Also issued online.
White boys and river girls -- My naked beauty -- Bastard child -- A woman like me -- Necessary distance -- Black boy in a white girl's world -- The kid's been called nigger before -- Mistress of cats -- Chances with Johnson.
Nine stories on relationships between men and women. Typical is Mistress of Cats, about an independent-minded woman who has numerous lovers. One day she meets her high-school sweetheart, now a married man, and decides to use him as a stud. She gives birth and happily accepts presents from her lovers.
Also issued online.
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