"As a millworkers' strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers-but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for...

A bitter strike is raging through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers : Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch ; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father ; and Leland, the bookish younger son who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance--and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined.