The Old Man's Place

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

Author: Jack Mearns,John Sanford
Publisher: Cutting Edge Publishing
Published: 04/02/2021
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781954841871

About the Author
Mearns, Jack: - Jack Mearns is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He has written extensively about John Sanford; he has also published essays about Robert M. Coates.Sanford, John: - John B. Sanford was a screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books. A one-time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade. He died in 2003 at age 98.