Unmentionables edition by David Greene Literature Fiction eBooks
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"One of the best novels of the year for any grown-up. A terrific, life-affirming read." - Nation Daily
Unmentionables is the story of two pairs of lovers in the American Civil War south. One couple is straight, white and wealthy. The other couple is gay, black and enslaved.
Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Over time, Jimmy's fascination with Cato grows into romantic love.
"Mr. Greene has written a book that is very well researched, has heart and soul, makes you laugh and cry, and get angry and frustrated. ... This is simply a beautiful story." --GGR Review
Winner Book of the Year bronze medal for Gay fiction.
Unmentionables edition by David Greene Literature Fiction eBooks
I have read many books on slavery, and the civil war and it never occurred to me that homosexuality existed during that time. However that is not what this novel is all about. It is about the lives of two wealthy families, who owned plantations, and slaves, in the South during the Civil War. It is also about the slave families, their presence and their future. This is a very powerful, and great novel. Very well written, and very accurate, to the truth of that time, but it is fiction.I'm not going to give too much away, as to spoil it for the next reader, but it is definitely a page turner that will keep you in suspense. This is not a gay romance novel either, even though the two slave boys become best friends, and it ends up happening, between the two. It takes you through the trials, and tribulations of the two rich families, as well as the slaves. Many reviewers have already went through more details, so I will keep it short, but sweet.
This novel gets better, and better, by each page, and chapter all the way to the end, and then you will run into a cliff hanger. There is so much more you want to know, and see. It appears that is going to have a happy ending, by much more work, and trials, and the end of the war, as well. But you are left hanging, which leaves the door open for the next book, in which I hope David Greene is working on. Because this story is not finished.
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Unmentionables edition by David Greene Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Mr. David Greene. I just finished reading your novel 'Unmentionables.' I must say it was a joy to read and it left me wanting more. I searched for a book of this type for quite sometime and was rewarded with finding your novel. The love between Jimmy and Cato was poetic. I appreciate your leaving some images and details to the imagination. I sorely wish there was a continuing of this book. Hopefully it will be one in the future. Your creation of the setting and storyline was amazing. I only wish to have read more about Cato and Jimmy. I look forward to your work that is to come. I am now a most loyal fan.
The story kept up a steady pace, kept me absorbed as multiple actions intertwined throughout. Numerous mounting problems afflicted those slaves who are prominent characters in the book, the sting of which is reduced by a Northern painter and a Southern woman who abhor the injustices of slavery.
While everyone loves happy endings, I strangely found disappointment in the ending. For those potential readers of the book, I shall not reveal the details of my disappointment; I urge you to read the book to discover your own critique.
This book is so good it should be on high school and university reading lists. An amazing civil war story told simply and very smoothly. The characters are interesting and any change in their outlook is developed slowly, instead of in the last few pages like some authors do. Dorothy is the central figure. She is very independent and liberal in her viewpoint, despite the fact she is the daughter of a slave owner near Jackson, Tennessee. She is straight as are most of the characters. There are three gay characters and two of them are slaves who have to deal with slavery and their sexuality. I feel the product description gives too much of the plot away. Just read the book and let it flow into your soul. At $[...]it is the greatest bargain on .
This book is a fascinating delight. I was so pleased every night to be transported back to the South just before the Civil War. The characters are sharply drawn and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat.
The book raises all sorts of questions I had never thought of before. For example
- How did African-American slaves who were gay get by?
- What about young white people in the south who were anti-slavery?
- How did white families react when the father in the family sired offspring with slave females, then raised the children on the family plantation?
- How hard was it to travel back and forth between the South and the North during the Civil War?
The book clearly lays out answers to these questions in its compelling, multi-faceted, hopeful drama.
I enjoyed this book. There are at least eight main characters! Each faced monumental life altering decisions due to the quite ordinary circumstances and the resulting consequences, requiring even more. There were some suspenseful moments throughout, but an almost too good to be true ending that was satisfyingly happy even though unrealistic. I will definitely be reading more by this talented author.
UNMENTIONABLES is easily the best book I've read this year and David Greene is by far the best new author on the market. I grew up in Minnesota in a very white community with no exposure to black history or racism. This book was educational while it pulled on my heart strings and was well written with characters who are full of flaws but passionate in their beliefs. Many issues in the story are ones that I've never faced or even thought about. Reading this book opened my eyes to the horrific conditions slaves lived in and the inhumane treatment they received. Greene skillfully built a fragile bridge between the well-to-do plantation families and the slave families who worked for them. I was holding my breath as I turned the pages. I would breathe a sigh of relief only to be confronted with another conflict. I look forward to Mr Greene's next work.
Straightforward, lush and elegant, David Greene creates a grand historical sweep of the era that brought us Gone With the Wind, but with a real twist.
The book takes us into not only the personal lives of the rich land and slave holders of the Grand Old South but reveals an intimate love story between two male slaves. Filled with passion and scenes of erotic intensity it uncovers the moral challenges of these gay men’s sex lives against the drama of having to survive their turbulent love and the American Civil War.
Gay and straight readers alike will be mesmerized and even get a point of view from their dog.
I can’t wait to read the sequel.
I have read many books on slavery, and the civil war and it never occurred to me that homosexuality existed during that time. However that is not what this novel is all about. It is about the lives of two wealthy families, who owned plantations, and slaves, in the South during the Civil War. It is also about the slave families, their presence and their future. This is a very powerful, and great novel. Very well written, and very accurate, to the truth of that time, but it is fiction.
I'm not going to give too much away, as to spoil it for the next reader, but it is definitely a page turner that will keep you in suspense. This is not a gay romance novel either, even though the two slave boys become best friends, and it ends up happening, between the two. It takes you through the trials, and tribulations of the two rich families, as well as the slaves. Many reviewers have already went through more details, so I will keep it short, but sweet.
This novel gets better, and better, by each page, and chapter all the way to the end, and then you will run into a cliff hanger. There is so much more you want to know, and see. It appears that is going to have a happy ending, by much more work, and trials, and the end of the war, as well. But you are left hanging, which leaves the door open for the next book, in which I hope David Greene is working on. Because this story is not finished.
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