Download Better Angels: A Retelling of Bayard Taylor's "Joseph and His Friend: A Pennsylvania Story" AudioBook Free
Joseph Asten, a attractive, 23-year-old farmer moving into the Allegheny River Valley shortly after the Civil War, secretly longed for intimacy and love with other men. He devised a misguided intend to marry a female who understood of his "dual mother nature," then his life got some sudden, fateful turns.Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend: A Pennsylvania Story is considered the first American Gay novel. Originally publicized in 1869 as a serial in The Atlantic the writer could not relate the storyline openly and possessed to use suggestive ways to describe his character types' activities and motivations. In Better Angels Goodman retells the tale honestly and candidly, free from antiquated 19th-Century cultural restraints. This is the author's second book revivifying forgotten, historically-significant Queer experiences.
