Now an award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage\'s acclaimed Western is a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place ( Boston Globe ) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain . --Annie Proulx, from her afterword.
Gripping and powerful...
A work of literary art.
From the novel\'s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage\'s voice -- and the intense passion of his characters -- holds readers in thrall.
The novel tells the story of two brothers -- one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet -- and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers\' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace.
Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature.
Now an award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage\'s acclaimed Western is a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place ( Boston Globe ) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain
