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John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managing to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954. Williams remained on the staff of the creative writing program at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1985. During these years, he was an active guest lecturer and writer, publishing two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus. In addition to Butcher’s Crossing, NYRB Classics also publishes Stoner.
Michelle Latiolais is a member of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of the novel Even Now.
- 美国文学
- JohnWilliams
- 文学
- English
- 英文原版
- Williams,John
- 约翰威廉斯
- 小说
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, and#64257;red 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 and#64257;nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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去年才读了美国文学奠基之作梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》，起先我一直以为它是小说。《瓦尔登湖》并非一本易消化的消遣读物，文中除却梭罗对荒野人生的思考，还有大块大块有关经济政治的议论，读的昏昏然。 梭罗的贡献不只是带动了自然文学的创作，不少作家是直接受《瓦尔登湖》的...
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评分a patient echoing to the impressive quotation by Melville“Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance,and judges like a god all men that come to her…But who froze to death my teamster on the prairie?And who made an idiot of Peter the Willy Boy?"
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评分简介：一个高材生，跑到西部去打牛了。被称为“最好的西部小说”，但个人感觉比较乏味。
评分大段大段的翻越山川的描写…真的好枯燥哦…对比Stoner ,好失望…
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