Two brothers run a farm, Georges heavy brave man and borrowed Phil svelte and intelligent, and touch all talented someone is brutal, tough guy also indifférant his own pain Quà that of others, human or animal.
It séchauffe easily virulently criticizes everything that surrounds it, love torment people. In short, a true cowhide it is better not to cross his path, the book revolves mainly around his personality.
In this country the harsh and manly manners, west of American culture is subjected to moral limpératif work and you have to be a tough guy to manage a ranch. To hide his true self, Phil sest remodeled second nature in the guise of a boorish and homophobic rancher. No one able to take it to an effeminate, he cultivates an almost pathological degree which gives it the air BE dune contrary "sissy" (a term often returns).
Believing that people need in their lives of obstacles that they can make the effort to sélever above and sapplique to itself this principle fiercely.
When George marries a widow and brought to the ranch, Phil leads him so hellish life that the poor woman begins to secretly booze
Peter's son, teenager both brilliant and bizarre, will develop a diabolical plan to protect her mother sadism Phil. I marrête the I am afraid of having said too much already.
Thomas Savage, as Dostoevsky is an astute observer of the human condition.
Really a writer to discover.