num_pages: 248
description: An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog , "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" ( Washington Post ). A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho: Emma, the matriarch, known as the Sheep Queen ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" — Publishers Weekly ); the daughter who disappoints her; the grandson who adores her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spends nearly half her life finding her way back to her family."The Sheep Queen is marvelous...Her reign has a mythic grandeur." — New York Times Book Review"A fine novel...A sense of family as anchor and root and self-definition [gives] the book its considerable strength...Savage is a writer of the first order, and he possesses in abundance the novelist's highest art — the ability to illuminate and move." — The New Yorker
language: English
title: The Sheep Queen
titlecomplete: The Sheep Queen
genres: Fiction, The United States Of America, Americana, Westerns, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 855
publisher: Back Bay Books