Dirt angel
Subtitle: stories
By: by Jeanne Wilmot.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ontario Review Press; Distributed by George Braziller
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: An electrifying collection of stories, Dirt Angel is informed by an original voice from the urban landscape of cross-over culture. The negotiations between lovers, lifestyles, friends, races, siblings, find their place on these pages in highly charged and authentic ways.

In the title story, a self-made young woman from the projects attempts to rescue a once affluent former cheerleader-turned-junkie; a sensual, reckless psychological adventurer provokes her lover into assaulting and eventually killing her ("Tryst"); a dropout debutante, bereaved by the loss of her mother, identifies with a Vietnam War hero about to be executed for murder ("Survivors"); and a homeless woman experiences the enormous act of parenting in a particularly bizarre fashion ("The Shopper").

In "The Company We Keep," a young woman encounters, through her new lover, the shocking arrogance of an elite artistic world.
Table of contents: title: Dirt angel; title: Madonna; title: Red Gables; title: Survivors; title: Spade in the minstrel mask; title: The shopper; title: The tryst; title: The company we keep.