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Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
242 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Sheep Queen is a Western epic in miniature, the story of Emma Russell Sweringen, known as the Sheep Queen of Idaho; the daughter who disappointed her; the grandson who adored her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spent nearly half her life finding her way back to her family.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2001, c1967
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and menace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage’s novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband...