Cut Hand
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934187674 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Altogether, this is quintessential historical fiction encompassing a fascinating topic and period in history. Five stars. Gerry A. Burnie Mark Wildyr's cross-culture novel "Cut Hand" [StarBooks Press, 2010] was a delightful find for me. To explain, I usually shy away from "Wild West" stories because they tend to be little more than loosely strung together sexual romps, to which the plot only serves to move the. One of the best gay love stories I've ever read! Mark Wildyr's first novel, "Cut Hand" is a beautifully written love story between a young white man, Billy Strobaw and the Indian warrior, Cut Hand. Told against the back-drop of the American frontier, it spans nearly 30 years from the early 1830's until the start of the Civ. Culture collision My earliest and still favorite fantasy is of a handsome American Indian warrior taking me to his wigwam and loving me forever. I was a teenager when I first started that fantasy and still enjoy it from time to time. This book showed that fantasy and then. in wonderful depth,
Told partially in Colonial and early American English, the novel follows the lives of these two lovers from 1832 to 186l, thirty tumultuous years on young America s frontier.. Homosexuals have been with us forever; queers, pansies, and fags are inventions of European civilizations. The handsome warrior, Cut Hand, not only earns his freedom, but also steals Billy s heart and prevails upon the American to come live among his people. But, many New World native cultures view “Two-Spirit people through more respectful eyes. As the two men work to overcome differences in their cultural backgrounds, Billy comes to understand these Native Americans have as much to offer him as he has to share with them. Plunged into a strange culture where his lust for another man is not regarded as disgraceful, Billy agrees to become Cut s winkte wife, an act that brings problems, but not from the direction he anticipated. Cut Hand by Mark Wildyr is a romantic action epic set in the early 1800s about an unorthodox love between a white youth on the American frontier, escaping his Tory family s past, and a young Indian warrior destined for the leadership of his tribe. Billy Strobaw s world turns on its axis at his surprising and unexpected physical reaction to a young Indian he and two traveling companions take captive. The sexuality of the protagonists becomes merely a personal footnote in