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A major rediscovery! This gripping domestic drama set in 1920s Montana is the finest, most powerful work by a much admired (and unjustly overlooked) novelist of the American West. It tells the story of two brothers - and a woman and her son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an... read more

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First Sentence

PHIL always did the castrating; first he sliced off the cup of the scrotum and tossed it aside; next he forced down first one and then the other testicle, slit the rainbow membrane that enclosed it, tore it out, and tossed it into the fire where the branding irons glowed.

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  1. Thomas Savage (Author)

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