Luisa Corbetta Boeken

'Billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel...a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation... With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian 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 has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. 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. But he reckons without an unlikely protector. From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX

Het is het jaar 1929. Honora Beecher en haar kersverse echtgenoot Sexton huren een zomerhuis aan de kust van New Hampshire. Wanneer Honora het vervallen huis opknapt en toegeeft aan haar hobby, het zoeken naar glasscherven die door de zee zijn aangespoeld, probeert Sexton het huis te kopen waar ze beiden verliefd op zijn geworden. Maar Sexton wordt volkomen verrast door de crash op Wall Street waardoor het pasgetrouwde paar opeens zonder geld komt te zitten. Het enige werk dat Sexton kan vinden is in een nabijgelegen fabriek, waar elk moment een gewelddadig arbeidsconflict kan uitbreken. Het vertrouwen dat Honora en Sexton in elkaar hebben, wordt hevig op de proef gesteld door krachten die hun verstand te boven gaan. Terwijl ze wanhopig hun huwelijk in stand proberen te houden, worden ze overweldigd door hartstochten waar ze geen weerstand aan kunnen bieden...

Rude e disincantata, ma dotata di una straordinaria carica umana e di una rara intelligenza pratica, Kinsey Millhone è una delle investigatrici più simpatiche e accattivanti apparse da molto tempo sulla scena del giallo. Questa volta, alle prese con la morte di Lorna Kepler, una ragazza che non sapeva resistere al fascino del pericolo, Kinsey si trova risucchiata nell'universo oscuro della prostituzione, dove il pericolo è sempre in agguato. Uno dei romanzi più tesi e avvincenti dell'"alfabeto del crimine" di Sue Grafton, autrice che sa unire magistralmente la grande tradizione del giallo all'inglese con l'azione e la ricostruzione di ambienti tipica dei thriller americani.