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JOHN WILLIAMS (1922-1994) was born in Texas. The poet and novelist taught at and received his PhD from the University of Missouri in the early 1950s. In 1955 he became the director of the University of Denver's creative writing program, where he became the editor of the University of Denver Quarterly. He remained at Denver until his retirement in 1986. He was a co-winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Augustus, and he is the author of the highly acclaimed novel Stoner.
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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.
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曾是满腔热血地寻找自我，逃离熟悉的环境，体验陌生的行业，到头来一切只是过往云烟。《屠夫十字镇》的主人公威尔•安德鲁斯正是如此，他离开小镇时，一无所有，带走的只剩那曾经的回忆。 作者约翰•威廉斯，美国作家，作品极少，年初中国引进了他的作品《斯通纳》畅销一时...
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The bulk of description wore me out, and I just wanted to be done with it. (Oh and I kept thinking of movies like Bounty Hunters and the Hateful Eight while I was reading.) I like Williams the most when he gets into inner workings of his characters; the ending and the opening are really good.
评分我實在太喜歡Williams的文筆瞭，exquisite, 簡直我的終極美學目標。完美的小說。
评分2017.9.21~2017.10.16 果不其然是個悲劇。沒有一個是聖人，沒有一個是壞人，所有角色都有其弱點和優點。這個故事裏的人物刻畫比STONER裏的要立體。閱讀的過程中會一直腦補The Revenant裏的場景，若拍成電影，應該就是這個樣子吧。
评分a hard, hot and hollow nut
评分看到50%的時候就覺得：必須得要死人這故事纔算瞭。
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