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The Bitterweed Path

Thomas Hal Phillips

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 65 Users | 12 Reviews

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Title	:	The Bitterweed Path
Author	:	Thomas Hal Phillips
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	June 17th 1996 by University of North Carolina Press (first published January 1st 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gay Fiction. Sexuality. Queer. Queer Lit

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Long out-of-print but rediscovered in this new edition, Thomas Hal Phillips' 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 interest lies in its subtle treatment of same-sex love across class lines.

The Bitterweed Path vividly invokes life in Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose drawing on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan, the author tells of the relationship between two boys--one a white sharecropper's son, the other the son of the wealthy land owner, a man whose own attentions complicate the plot when they fall upon his son's friend.

Part of a small body of early twentieth century gay literature, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexuality but instead portrays it as part of a continuum of human behavior. The result is a book that challenges modern assumptions about the portrayal in novels of gay characters during the era before Stonewall.

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Original Title:	The Bitterweed Path
ISBN:	0807845957 (ISBN13: 9780807845950)
Edition Language:	English

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The beginning of The Bitterweed Path was good when Darren and Roger were young boys. Phillips did a good job of showing how Darrell's misery with his home life and his father and how he was drawn to the Pitt family because their household represented everything that his own didn't: love, stability, financial security. But when Darren and Roger became adults, the book just meandered. People kept saying things they didn't mean and endless pages of dialogue that just went nowhere. "Did you like New

This response is a bit scattered. Its as close to stream-of-consciousness as I will ever get so enjoy it.I jumped this book up my list because someone was getting antsy. For some reason, he didnt think I wanted to read anything he suggested, or that I didnt like his last recommendation, Last Summer , so Ive made a deal with him that Ill read a book at least every other month from him (talk about dictating!). Thankfully Ive really enjoyed both books hes recommended so far. His next

This novel bills itself as a re-discovered subtle gay pre-Stonewall story. Originally with a "pulp" style cover illustration that depicts a man and woman in a suggestive pose, the new cover is more tasteful with three male torsos on their sides reminiscent of a mountain range. In reading the novel one has to look very hard within the writing to discover anything gay about it. The story is about a sharecropper's son and the land owners son growing up together and how the landowner's father sees

A great book. You have to sort of read between the lines.

Historical gay fiction....late 1800s, Mississippi....male love before gay recognition.Touching, emotional, internal struggles.

Why have we never read Thomas Hal Phillips before? It feels like we've stumbled upon buried treasure. The Bitterweed Path does address the subject of homosexuality, which was indeed remarkable for its time. (The book was first published in 1950.) More remarkable, though, is the fantastic job Phillips does of telling this story. His prose is lyrical and intense, setting the reader firmly in each moment of the story. The characters are deftly drawn. The friendship between Darrell and Roger