A powerfully tense tale of domestic tyranny set against the wild open spaces of the American West - another rediscovered classic from the publishers of Stoner
Thomas Savage (Author)
Thomas Savage was born on 25 April 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to
a large sheep-ranching family. His parents divorced when he was two
years old, and on his mother's remarriage Savage moved with her to
Montana. He studied at the University of Montana and worked as a
ranch hand for several years, but when an article he wrote on
horse-breaking was published in Coronet magazine in 1937, Savage
enrolled at Colby College in Maine to study English. He went on to
have a variety of jobs, including welder, insurance man and plumber
as well as teaching English at Brandeis and Vassar. His first
novel, The Pass, was published in 1944 and he went on to write
twelve more, including The Power of the Dog. He was awarded a
Guggenheim fellowship in 1980. Thomas Savage died in Virginia on 25
July 2003, aged eighty-eight.
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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