What are you reading this week of July 2, 2017?

[japple]

15. Hi hermetic and all DU bookies! I read your comment about The Power of the Dog with interest

because it is one of my favorite books, but it is the one by Thomas Savage written in 1967. Really interested to read that there was another book by the same title written just recently. Man, this can be confusing!

Here is the book I read and loved:

First published in 1967 to critical raves, Thomas Savage's The Power of the Dog now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx. It traces the tense relationship between two bachelor brothers, Phil and George Burbank, on a Montana ranch in the 1920s. When George marries a widow, Phil, a bullying, repressed homosexual, terrorizes his new sister-in-law. And when her teenage son comes to the ranch, things get even more complicated. This is just the first reissue of a long-out-of-print book by Savage, hailed as a true master of the western genre. I Heard My Sister Speak My Name is scheduled for this fall, retitled The Sheep Queen.