The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage

Random House

2020

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9781784870621

Inglês

'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 Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, 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. Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. 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

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Power of dog

Essa história se passa em 1925 e é centrada na figura do caubói e sua relação tensa e tortuosa com a cunhada , e o filho adolescente dela.
uma história impressionante de tirania doméstica, masculinidade brutal e desafio emocionante de uma das vozes mais poderosas e distintas da literatura americana. O romance conta a história de dois irmãos – um magnético, mas cruel, o outro gentil e quieto – e da mãe e do filho cuja chegada ao rancho dos irmãos quebra uma paz já tênue. Do surpreendente primeiro parágrafo do romance até a última palavra, a voz de Thomas Savage – e a intensa paixão de seus personagens.