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Published: 04/02/2016
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**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 America.

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 AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX

'With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784870621
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 214 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 18 mm


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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

[Savage’s] prose is vivid and direct… [his] descriptions of nature have real power… a slow-burn psychological western. - The Times

An exhilarating drama between two brothers set in Twenties Montana, and better even than Stoner - Daily Telegraph

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

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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Emily at Lancaster King Street

“Tour de Force”

Thanks to Rosanna Boscawen and Vintage Books for the review copy.

I'll be honest: I'd never heard of this 'lost classic', and though I do have an interest in the American south, the western... More

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“A Wonderful Well Written Story.”

Set in the 1920's, brothers Phil and George own and run the biggest ranch in the Montana valley. Phil is definitely the dominant brother but both brothers have different attributes and rub along nicely, proud... More

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The oaks

“The age of the sensitive cowboy”

Despite giving up on the film of the book about 10 minutes in mainly for the miscasting of the English actor Dominic Cumberbatch as the mean cowboy, we found the book an enthralling and unexpectedly good read. The... More

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