Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (English) Paperback Book

Description: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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," Review Quote "One of the finest novels of the West ever to come out of the West."--The Denver Post This story about the hunt of one of the last great buffalo herds "becomes a young mans 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, a rarity in writing about the west. More, John Williams."--The Chicago Tribune "John Williamss unsparing novels express a highly qualified though resilient optimism about our ability to salvage something of value from lifes 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 Details ISBN1590171985 Author John Williams Short Title BUTCHERS CROSSING Pages 274 Publisher New York Review of Books Series New York Review Books Classics Language English ISBN-10 1590171985 ISBN-13 9781590171981 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-01-31 Imprint NYRB Classics DOI 10.1604/9781590171981 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43686522;

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