Butcher's Crossing (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2013-12-05
Förlag
Vintage Classics
Dimensioner
200 x 139 x 22 mm
Vikt
302 g
ISBN
9780099589679

Butcher's Crossing

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av John Williams
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-12-05
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**NOW A MAJOR FILM** 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.
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His Stoner is the book that has garnered the attention, but I prefer this earlier take on the Western genreit 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 Its a graceful and brutal story of isolated men gone haywire * Time Out * Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butchers Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy * New York Times Book Review *

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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.

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