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Butcher's Crossing (Paperback, Main)
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Butcher's Crossing (Paperback, Main)
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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, fired 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
find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
General
Imprint: |
Nyrb Classics
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2007 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
John Williams
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Introduction by: |
Michelle Latiolais
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Dimensions: |
204 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
274 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59017-198-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Westerns
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LSN: |
1-59017-198-5 |
Barcode: |
9781590171981 |
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