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Butcher´s Crossing: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stoner
John Williams
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Paperback. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.
In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their limits.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589679
SKU
V9780099589679
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99-50
About John Williams
John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.
Reviews for Butcher´s Crossing: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stoner
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
Shorn of sentimentality or decoration, the events and places [Williams] describes begin to feel inescapable, permanent, and rivetingly dramatic. This is language that seems to be carved into stone – into mountains... Stoner showed us a writer who had written a great book. To those of us who didn't know already, Butcher's Crossing reveals John Williams to be more than that: forgotten writer as he was, he was unquestionably also a great one
Archie Bland
Independent
Superbly understated
Rosemary Goring
Herald
One of the finest books about the elusive nature of the West ever written… It’s a graceful and brutal story of isolated men gone haywire
Time Out
Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butcher’s Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy
New York Times Book Review
Butcher's Crossing is like a western by Joseph Conrad...wonderful...beautifully written
David Nicholls This story about the hunt of one of the last great buffalo herds becomes a young man’s search for the integrity of his own being…The characters are defined, the events lively, the place, the smells, the sounds right. And the prose is superb
Chicago Tribune
It is the novel's immense visual power and tangibility of material detail, its fully realized sense of time and place, its telling incidents, its nimble and subtle resonance with the Bible, and its fleshed-out characters, that make it a very great work
Boston Globe
John Williams's unsparing novels express a highly qualified though resilient optimism about our ability to salvage something of value from life's impossible conditions. Along with the necessary isolation of the artist, he conveys the sobering if startled recognition
perhaps with his own career in mind
of the transitory triumph of art
Times Literary Supplement
Butcher’s Crossing is remarkable for the accuracy of Williams’s prose
John Sutherland
The Times
Kate Atkinson
Irish Times
Shorn of sentimentality or decoration, the events and places [Williams] describes begin to feel inescapable, permanent, and rivetingly dramatic. This is language that seems to be carved into stone – into mountains... Stoner showed us a writer who had written a great book. To those of us who didn't know already, Butcher's Crossing reveals John Williams to be more than that: forgotten writer as he was, he was unquestionably also a great one
Archie Bland
Independent
Superbly understated
Rosemary Goring
Herald
One of the finest books about the elusive nature of the West ever written… It’s a graceful and brutal story of isolated men gone haywire
Time Out
Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butcher’s Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy
New York Times Book Review
Butcher's Crossing is like a western by Joseph Conrad...wonderful...beautifully written
David Nicholls This story about the hunt of one of the last great buffalo herds becomes a young man’s search for the integrity of his own being…The characters are defined, the events lively, the place, the smells, the sounds right. And the prose is superb
Chicago Tribune
It is the novel's immense visual power and tangibility of material detail, its fully realized sense of time and place, its telling incidents, its nimble and subtle resonance with the Bible, and its fleshed-out characters, that make it a very great work
Boston Globe
John Williams's unsparing novels express a highly qualified though resilient optimism about our ability to salvage something of value from life's impossible conditions. Along with the necessary isolation of the artist, he conveys the sobering if startled recognition
perhaps with his own career in mind
of the transitory triumph of art
Times Literary Supplement
Butcher’s Crossing is remarkable for the accuracy of Williams’s prose
John Sutherland
The Times