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"Sanford is a supreme master at squeezing the last drop of terror
and excitement out of a sordid, savage situation. The story sweeps
along with an ugly force that will send sensitive souls in search
of smelling salts." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A trio of vicious World
War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains
where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone. They
embark on happily wreaking drunken havoc at the old man's place and
in the nearby town. But when a naive, mail-order bride arrives, she
ignites a tinderbox of resentment, lust, and betrayal among the men
that explodes in brutal depravity, bloody violence and shocking
death. This hard-boiled, literary masterpiece, back in print for
the first time in sixty years, includes a new introduction by Jack
Mearns, author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography
Previously published as The Hard Guys and filmed as the 1971 motion
picture My Old Man's Place. "A robust tale of violence, lust,
treachery and murder" Columbus Dispatch "A good, exciting story
told with menacing simplicity." Baltimore Sun "A first-rate piece
of swift-moving and dramatic story-telling in restrained and
effective modern American prose." New York Times "In an era of
brutal fiction, The Old Man's Place will take a prize for
brutality. Sanford writes well. He has a talent for it. He is
vivid, realistic, skillful, dramatic." Cleveland Plain Dealer
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