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The Power of the Dog

by Thomas Savage

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The Power of the Dog

On a Montana ranch in the 1920s, the brothers Phil and George Burbank run the family business together. When the gentle George marries Rose, a widow, and brings her and her sensitive son Peter to the ranch, the brilliant and cruel Phil sets out to torment them, until his relationship with the boy takes an unexpected and deadly turn.