The Bitterweed Path

Phillips, Thomas Hal

ISBN 10: 0807845957 / ISBN 13: 9780807845950

Editore: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1996

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314pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950. New Introduction by John Howard.

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• Titolo: The Bitterweed Path
• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807845957
• ISBN 13: 9780807845950
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: Reprint Edition.
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literature

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Riassunto

This long out-of-print and newly rediscovered novel tells the story of two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950, the novel's unique contribution lies in its subtle engagement of homosexuality and cross-class love. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Part of a very small body of gay literature of the period, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexual love but instead portrays sexuality as a continuum of human behavior. The result is a book that challenges many assumptions about gay representation in the first half of the twentieth century.

Informazioni sull?autore

Thomas Hal Phillips (1922-2007) was a Hollywood screenwriter and consultant whose film work included Nashville, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ode to Billy Joe, and Walking Tall II. His novels include The Golden Lie, Search for a Hero, Kangaroo Hollow, and The Loved and the Unloved. John Howard, a native of Brandon, Mississippi, is author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History and editor of Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South.