The Bitterweed Path

Thomas Hal Phillips

Published by Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950

About this Item

HILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. The Bitterweed Path: A Novel. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Hardcover 1st 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 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. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR S FIRST NOVEL some cloth wear, spine edges damaged, writing 1st blank page otherwise clean and tight BB1.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1616245880364

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bitterweed Path
• Publisher: Rinehart & Company, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • LGBTQ
  • Fiction