Butcher's Crossing - Williams, John
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In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, red up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one…mehr

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In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, red up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher s Crossing to nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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John Williams (1922—1994) was born in Texas. He taught for many years at the University of Denver, where he was head of the creative writing program. Williams won the 1973 National Book Award in fiction for Augustus . His novel Stoner is also published as an NYRB Classic. Michelle Latiolais is an associate professor of English at the UC Irvine. Her novel, Even Now, won a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. She has recently published fiction and essays in The Antioch Review, Santa Monica Review, and ZYZZYVA.
John Williams
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His Stoner is the book that has garnered the attention, but I prefer this earlier take on the Western genre...it has some gory, visceral passages that are not for the faint-hearted Kate Atkinson Irish Times