- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Van Vactor & Goodheart (February 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 094132401X
- ISBN-13: 978-0941324014
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
First published in 1967 to critical raves, Thomas Savage's The Power of the Dog now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx. It traces the tense relationship between two bachelor brothers, Phil and George Burbank, on a Montana ranch in the 1920s. When George marries a widow, Phil, a bullying, repressed homosexual, terrorizes his new sister-in-law. And when her teenage son comes to the ranch, things get even more complicated. This is just the first reissue of a long-out-of-print book by Savage, hailed as a true master of the western genre. I Heard My Sister Speak My Name is scheduled for this fall, retitled The Sheep Queen.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Set in 1920s Montana, Savage's 1967 novel introduces the Burbank brothers, whose lives are permanently altered when one falls in love with a widow and brings the woman and her son to live on their isolated ranch. LJ's reviewer praised the novel, saying, Savage is a writer who can really write, and who never lets his style get in the way of his plot (LJ 2/15/67).
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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PHIL always did the castrating; first he sliced off the cup of the scrotum and tossed it aside; next he forced down first one and then the other testicle, slit the rainbow membrane that enclosed it, tore it out, and tossed it into the fire where the branding irons glowed. Read the first page
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PHIL always did the castrating; first he sliced off the cup of the scrotum and tossed it aside; next he forced down first one and then the other testicle, slit the rainbow membrane that enclosed it, tore it out, and tossed it into the fire where the branding irons glowed. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVED THIS BOOK,
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This review is from: The Power of the Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
A totally gripping, thought provoking book. Loved it. Read "The Sheep Queen" by this author immediately after. "The Power of The Dog" will be a book that is routed through my entire family - a family of readers. I'm sure they will like the book as much as I. Between the two, "The Power of the Dog" meant more to me than "The Sheep Queen", but you decide! Both were excellent.
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Tense, harsh, twisted, powerful,
This review is from: The Power of the Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
This is an incredibly well crafted novel. A brilliant, complex tale of complicated, twisted but plausible characters, fraught with tension. Savage masterfully employs foreshadowing and understatement throughout the novel; it clearly requires a re-reading to appreciate them all, as well as its many metaphors. This tale is so powerful that in the first read you are compelled to proceed reading rather than to slowly savor it. After having finished it, I found myself repeatedly rereading the impeccable last 15 pages -- the perfection of the novel's end literally takes your breath away.It is rare that one comes across a novel as well written as this: impressive, satisfying, masterful.
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A lost treasure rediscovered,
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This review is from: The Power of the Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
Thomas Savage's "Power of the Dog" is a re-discovered treasure of a novel. Like Beryl Markham's "West With the Night," this book slipped into oblivion shortly after publication and never received literary accolades it deserved. When Annie Proulx wrote a new afterward for the book, contemporary readers took notice and Thomas Savage receives renewed recognition as an important American writer."The Power of the Dog," first published in 1967, contains seeds of a writing style that bears fruit in writers like Thomas McGuane, Annie Proulx, Jim Harrison and Mark Spragg. While the book is a "western" in setting, it broaches misogyny, misogamy and homosexuality, subjects seldom touched in writings about the west. Fascinating, darkly suspenseful and wholly satisfying.
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