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...
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...
The first American edition of the novel that has been praised as Phillips's most ambitious work
In most of his books Thomas Hal Phillips narrates family chronicles charged by human foibles and generational conflicts. In Kangaroo Hollow he is at his best.
Just as America enters World War I, Rufus Frost, a sharecropper in Kangaroo Hollow, marries Anna Shannon, a local aristocrat. On the night their first son is born, Rufus is with another woman, who later bears a child Rufus never acknowledges as his own. Rufus is drafted but survives the war. Returning to Kangaroo Hollow, he is...
The first American edition of the novel that has been praised as Phillips's most ambitious work
In most of his books Thomas Hal Phillips narrates f...
