Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form - he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter - all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. But he reckons without an unlikely protector.įrom its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. 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. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is tall and angular George is stocky and silent. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. **NOW THE WINNER OF THE 2022 BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR AND TWO 2022 BAFTA AWARDS**ĭiscover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century America.
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