Bitterweed Path A Rediscovered Novel

Name: Bitterweed Path A Rediscovered Novel
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ISBN: 9780807845950

ISBN-10: 0807845957

ISBN-13: 9780807845950

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas Hal Phillips, John Howard

List price: $39.00

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Thomas Hal Phillips, a former Hollywood screenwriter and consultant whose film work includes Nashville, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ode to Billy Joe, and Walking Tall II, now lives in his native Mississippi. He is author of the novels The Golden Lie, Search for a Hero, Kangaroo Hollow, and The Loved and the Unloved.