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"The author's readable style and ability to create a feeling of ever-growing tension will hold the reader from beginning to end," said LJ's reviewer of this novel (LJ 6/15/50), which concerns the love between two boys in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Its homosexual theme no doubt limited its original release, but the book should find a much wider audience now.
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Originally published in 1950, ###The Bitterweed Path# tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. A fine example of the southern literary tradition, the novel is also part of a very small body of gay literature of the period. As such, it challenges many assumptions about gay representation in the first half of the twentieth century. "###The Bitterweed Path# is lyrical, sexy, and fascinating--a haunting work of art from a time and psychological place that is illuminating to revisit in light of where the world is today."--Howard Cruse, author of ###Stuck Rubber Baby# "A small gem of a homoerotic novel, written about a time and a place when gay didn't exist, but male love did. We owe our thanks to John Howard for rediscovering it, and to Thomas Hal Phillips for writing it."--John D'Emilio, author of ###Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940@-1970#
"[This book] is a delicate, sensitive work, written in a warm, quiet rhythm which creates and maintains a mood and an atmosphere proper to the story's locale and period. . . . Phillips has made the action of his story flow as effortlessly as time itself; he has brought [Southern rural] life during the early years of the century into the sort of believable reality which other Southern writers carefully avoid."--Thomas Sugrue, ###New York Times Book Review#, September 10, 1950
"[Phillips's] readable style and his ability to create a feeling of ever-growing tension will hold the reader from beginning to end."--###Library Journal#, June 15, 1950
"###The Bitterweed Path# is an extraordinary find. It will force many critics to reexamine the nature of pre-Stonewall gay fiction and the range of how homosexuality was constructed in postwar America. It is an important, overlooked book."--David Bergman, author of ###Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature#
"Thomas Hal Phillips's 1950 novel, ###The Bitterweed Path#, is a remarkable rediscovery. It is in itself a moving, subtle, skillful work of fiction. And its rare depiction of homoerotic relationships in an era in which the subject was largely tabooed, redoubles the novel's importance and impact. John Howard's excellent introduction to the book, placing it in historical context, further adds to the importance of this publishing event."--Martin Duberman, author of ###Black Mountain#, ###Paul Robeson#, ###Cures#, and ###Stonewall#
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"The author's readable style and ability to create a feeling of ever-growing tension will hold the reader from beginning to end," said LJ's reviewer of this novel (LJ 6/15/50), which concerns the love between two boys in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Its homosexual theme no doubt limited its original release, but the book should find a much wider audience now.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Originally published in 1950, ###The Bitterweed Path# tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. A fine example of the southern literary tradition, the novel is also part of a very small body of gay literature of the period. As such, it challenges many assumptions about gay representation in the first half of the twentieth century. "###The Bitterweed Path# is lyrical, sexy, and fascinating--a haunting work of art from a time and psychological place that is illuminating to revisit in light of where the world is today."--Howard Cruse, author of ###Stuck Rubber Baby# "A small gem of a homoerotic novel, written about a time and a place when gay didn't exist, but male love did. We owe our thanks to John Howard for rediscovering it, and to Thomas Hal Phillips for writing it."--John D'Emilio, author of ###Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940@-1970#
"[This book] is a delicate, sensitive work, written in a warm, quiet rhythm which creates and maintains a mood and an atmosphere proper to the story's locale and period. . . . Phillips has made the action of his story flow as effortlessly as time itself; he has brought [Southern rural] life during the early years of the century into the sort of believable reality which other Southern writers carefully avoid."--Thomas Sugrue, ###New York Times Book Review#, September 10, 1950
"[Phillips's] readable style and his ability to create a feeling of ever-growing tension will hold the reader from beginning to end."--###Library Journal#, June 15, 1950
"###The Bitterweed Path# is an extraordinary find. It will force many critics to reexamine the nature of pre-Stonewall gay fiction and the range of how homosexuality was constructed in postwar America. It is an important, overlooked book."--David Bergman, author of ###Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature#
"Thomas Hal Phillips's 1950 novel, ###The Bitterweed Path#, is a remarkable rediscovery. It is in itself a moving, subtle, skillful work of fiction. And its rare depiction of homoerotic relationships in an era in which the subject was largely tabooed, redoubles the novel's importance and impact. John Howard's excellent introduction to the book, placing it in historical context, further adds to the importance of this publishing event."--Martin Duberman, author of ###Black Mountain#, ###Paul Robeson#, ###Cures#, and ###Stonewall#
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Malcolm Pitt, New Orleans, Leta Pitt, Aaron Gammel, Yellow House, Darrell Barclay, Miss Paralee, Uncle Turner, Aunt Susan, Roger Pitt, South Carolina, Littleford Springs, Uncle Vaughan, Bertran Wilcox, Brother Potter, Miss Pitt, Mista Darrell, Thad Barclay, Winter Creek New!
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- Kangaroo Hollow by Thomas Hal Phillips in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Loved and the Unloved (Banner Books Series) by Thomas Hal Phillips in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith in Front Matter
- The City in Southern History: The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South by Blaine A. Brownell in Front Matter
- Strange Fruit (Plays) by Caryl Phillips in Front Matter
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- Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps by Michael Bronski in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Interpreting Films by Janet Staiger on page 169, and Back Matter
- Altman on Altman by David Thompson on page 98
- Song of the Loon (Little Sister's Classics) by Richard Amory on page 14
- Boys Like Us by Patrick Merla in Back Matter
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