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The Power of the Dog
- Author
- Thomas Savage
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 November 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Brought to you by Penguin.
NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS
Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film.
WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX
Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.
Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years.
When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.
From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.
'With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian
© Thomas Savage 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Optimistically billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel...a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation... With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration
Guardian
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[Savage’s] prose is vivid and direct… [his] descriptions of nature have real power… a slow-burn psychological western.
The Times
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An exhilarating drama between two brothers set in Twenties Montana, and better even than Stoner
Daily Telegraph
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Something aching and lonely and terrible of the west is caught forever on Savage's pages, and the most compelling and painful of [his] books is The Power of the Dog, a work of literary art
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The shocking turn of the book’s final pages keeps the story bright as a blade to the end...This is the perfect example of a book that never quite made it to the rank of classic...but is more than worthy of resurrection now
New Statesman
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Flinty naturalism, lean prose and authentic portrait of the American frontier...it without doubt deserves belatedly to reach a wider audience
The Sunday Times
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Savage writes like thunder and lightning. A flash will illuminate startling detail, a rumble will bring a fierce revelation, a philosophy, a big picture. It has a jarring, unsettling effect, like many great books, a reminder of inevitable change, of civilizations crumbling
Los Angeles Times
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First published in 1967, this reissue is becoming a word-of-mouth classic.
Emerald Street
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The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage is, quite simply, one of the finest contemporary novels I have ever read: set on a ranch in 1920s Montana, it is a taut, complex and superbly written exploration of family and landscape, of belonging and alienation, of repressed sensitivity and desire in an unforgivingly red-blooded world. There are scenes and characters so powerful that they haunt the memory like dreams, for the novel carries a charge well beyond its final, riveting pages.
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The Power of the Dog resurfaces to a new generation of readers, less likely to skirt around the homosexual undercurrent that drives this text to its ultimate twist of an ending… Savage achieves…an intense realness, unearthing the inner darkness of the American Dream.
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Details
- Author
- Thomas Savage
- Narrator
- Chad Michael Collins, Annie Proulx
- Duration
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 November 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529193725
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Adventure fiction: Westerns, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDSDiscover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film.WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULXPhil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years.When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.'With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian© Thomas Savage 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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