This novel tells the story of two boys growing up in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Drawing on the Old Testament story of "David and Jonathan", it tells of the boys friendship and love. The book was part of a small body of gay literature when it was first published in 1950.
This novel explores the complex and mercurial nature of human emotions This is a tragic story told by Max Harper, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper. He lives with his parents and brother on land owned by a benevolent planter named Acroft. It seems a great wrong for a boy so warm and intelligent to be crushed in the pit of poverty. Despite the ...
In a fit of rage over an insult to his father's grave, young Marcus Oday kills his friend Obie's father, is convicted of manslaughter, and is sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary. Sensitive, vulnerable, and afraid, Marcus is rescued by an older convict named Mims, who tenderly shields him from harm. In the turbulent prison world, where ...
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, ...
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