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Original Title: Butcher's Crossing
ISBN: 1590171985 (ISBN13: 9781590171981)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Butchers' Crossing, Kansas(United States)
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Butcher's Crossing Paperback | Pages: 274 pages
Rating: 4.12 | 12330 Users | 1197 Reviews

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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.

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Title:Butcher's Crossing
Author:John Williams
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 274 pages
Published:January 16th 2007 by NYRB Classics (first published 1960)
Categories:Fiction. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Novels. Literature. American

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One of the joys of reading chaotically, picking up books from the TBR stack at the whim of the moment and not according to some master plan, is to discover that succesive reads turn out to be related after all. The Great Gatsby is concerned with the Great American Dream - that success is waiting right around the corner for anyone determined enough to reach for it. Butcher's Crossing is about another facet of the Great American Dream, the myth of the pristine land, a Garden of Eden where Man

The book that can disabuse anyone of the "romance" of the Western. A haunting and brilliant book.

Bulls-eye: After reading this book, I have felt myself becoming one of those naive victims from this story. At first, I was unaware of what is going to happen amidst the scurry behind shrubs and rocks, and the constant thuds of distant hooves. I was slowly made to believe that everything is normal without knowing what lies beneath. I suppose that I was taken for granted.Eventually, there was this strange feeling of foreign intervention which made me question my own existence and my very own

John 'Stoner' Williams' bleak and unromantic portrait of the great myth of the Western Frontier is a hard edged read designed to repulse the reader with its content whilst wallowing in the majesty of nature. It's no mean feat to capture such beauty and such horror in one novel with equal skill and success, in doing so Williams confirms his place in my heart as one the greats of American letters, and if justice is served all of us who care for the careful consideration of how one word follows



You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies at school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when youre ready to die, it comes to you that theres nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you aint done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because youre the only one that knows the secret; only then its too late. Youre old.Will Andrews bought into the

Wonderful book. Read it. Americana at its best. "Stoner" was a book that made me look into my life as I am. "Butcher's Crossing" took me back to my youth when I wandered, and lived in my tent in the mountains, became lost in a snow storm in the North. But more than anything it took me back to this: "He could hardly recall, now, the passion that had drawn him to this room and this flesh, as if by a subtle magnetism; nor could he recall the force of that other passion which had impelled him