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Audiobook9 hours
The Power of the Dog
Written by Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx
Narrated by Jonathan Hogan
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Thomas Savage has earned a reputation as one of the best writers of the American West. He has 13 novels to his credit, and has received a PEN/Faulkner nomination and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Power of the Dog was named "the year's best novel." by the San Francisco Chronicle. It is the tale of two bachelor ranchers and the lovely widow who shifts the precarious balance of their lives. A superb storyteller, Savage spins a dramatic counterpoint of rustic tranquility and the struggle for survival.
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Reviews for The Power of the Dog
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If I could give it 3.75 I would. I don't think it deserves a 4 as it somehow has quite a slow introduction despite being quite a short book! The main characters are well rounded and fully formed, despite being a bit black and white in places, although this was somewhat redeemed by the ending. The landscape plays a big role in the story, almost being a character in its own right. I probably should have spotted the main revelation of the book earlier but somehow didn't see it. Generally a well constructed book and worth persevering with if you're struggling to get through.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story was alright, about two brothers who live together on a ranch they own in 1920's Montana. Phil is a severely repressed homosexual, who hides it by overcompensating in all manly ways, and by being at times sadistically cruel, especially to his gentle younger brother George. When George marries and brings a widowed woman and her son to live on the ranch Phil steps up his mean cruel streak. The writing is fantastic, but it loses a star for its predictability. I will definitely look for other books by this outstanding writer.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I didn't warm to this story at all - sorry.The characters were not believable. Very formulaic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I had never heard of Thomas Savage up until a month or two ago. The Power of the Dog is indeed powerful stuff though. Set in Montana ranching country in the 1920s, it deals with subjects that would have been near-verboten back then: homosexuality and pedophilia are only hinted at throughout much of Savage's book, but finally come out into the open in the final explosive chapters. The two rancher brothers, Phil and George Burbank, are two of the most fully realized characters in western fiction in the past fifty years. It would be easy to see this story as a kind of Cain and Abel parable, but it's a bit more complicated than that. As the tale progresses, you learn, bit by bit, how Phil may have come to be the way he is. While not wholly evil, he comes damn close. George, on the other hand, seems a completely sympathetic sort, albeit an unlikely hero with his slow and careful ways. The Power of the Dog is quite simply and excellent book, enough so that I will be looking for more of Savage's work. He wrote more than a dozen novels in a career that spanned over fifty years. Savage died in 2003 at the age of 88. I for one am happy that his work has been reintroduced to new generations of readers. Writer Annie Proulx has added a wonderful Afterword to this 2001 edition of the book that provides an abbreviated primer on the life and work of Thomas Savage.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sparse, brutal, yet beautiful writing perfectly describes the sparse landscape and brutal lives that are at the core of this novel. It was a pleasure to read, while also tense and unsettling, coupling pristine natural descriptions and a tender romance with the evocation of the sort of dread and anticipation of a Shirley Jackson work. It's not an exaggeration to call it a masterpiece.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Originally published in 1967 and reissued in 2001, this is a powerful and very tense narrative of life in a remote western ranching community where one of the protagonists is a repressed homosexual wreaking hellish malicious havoc on everyone around him until the diabolical ending. Many other themes run through this work; the western landscape, isolation, family, money, bullying.