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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 paradisiacal 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.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781481586740
Data wydania
Audiobook: 5 września 2008
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Literatura Klasyczna
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 paradisiacal 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.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781481586740
Data wydania
Audiobook: 5 września 2008
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Butcher’s Crossing is truly a harrowing tale, that with great vividness depicts the helplessness of men in the fight against nature. Its descriptions of the harsh reality of the unforgiving American wilderness will make you empathise with the characters to an unprecedented degree. I felt thirsty and cold as Will Andrews and the others did. The novel also illustrates the breaking of the innocence of a young person both in spirit and in flesh. The main character morphs into a more mature and rough form which helps the reader visualise his internal shifts. “Butcher’s Crossing” is also a study of a killer’s mind. The way Miller is described while slaughtering buffalo shows detachment and desensitization to the violence he inflicts. Even though this book is a must-read I also believe it will not be adored by all who read it. The reason for that is its grotesque depictions of the hunt which might scare of those with weak stomachs.
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