Nevada Barr: Bittersweet (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.

Nevada Barr: Bittersweet. Perennial, ISBN: 0380799502 (September, 1999), 362 p., $13.95.

Nevada Barr: Bittersweet (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
Set in late nineteeth-century America, rich in authentic detail drawn from women's diaries of the Old West, Bittersweet tells the love story of two women -- a small town school teacher and a former student who comes to her for sanctuary from her battering husband. When their illicit relationship is discovered, they are forced to flee their small Pennsylvania coal town home for the anonymity and isolation of northern Nevada. Amidst a scarcity of women in this frontier outpost, Imogene and Sarah's determination to stay together sparks a whole new set of challenges. Their daring solutions provide a full-length, old-time adventure story worth staying up late for.

Nevada Barr: Bittersweet. Spinster's Ink, ISBN: 0933216645 (June, 1989), 339 p., $9.95.

Nevada Barr: Bittersweet (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Defying convention and the men who get in their way, two daring women pursue forbidden love in late nineteenth-century America.
In this compelling and tender novel, Sarah and Imogene struggle against all odds to carve a life for themselves--a life in which society's strictures and the men who run that society can't dominate them.

Rich in authentic detail drawn from women's diaries of the Old West, Bittersweet is set against a background of rough humor and harsh reality, where a love grows up and flowers between two women driven from the small-mindedness of a Pennsylvania coal town to a lonely frontier outpost in northern Nevada.

More than a story of love, Bittersweet tells of a strong woman's efforts to nurture a weaker one until she is confident and independent enough to survive in the world of men.

A sensitive, honest, and powerful novel of America's past.

Nevada Barr: Bittersweet. A Novel. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 0312082444 (August, 1984), 339 p., $15.95.