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发表于2024-09-09
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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, 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.
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.
大段大段的翻越山川的描寫…真的好枯燥哦…對比Stoner ,好失望…
評分簡介:一個高材生,跑到西部去打牛瞭。被稱為“最好的西部小說”,但個人感覺比較乏味。
評分大段大段的翻越山川的描寫…真的好枯燥哦…對比Stoner ,好失望…
評分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?"
評分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?"
“有谁的身世听起来比你更可怜?有谁在凶恶的灾难中遭遇着人生的变迁,比你更可怜?” ——古希腊悲剧《俄狄浦斯王》 从《斯通纳》到《屠夫十字镇》,读者的视野由学院生活延伸到西部旷野,你会发现作家约翰•威廉斯总有意无意地踩在小说分类的边缘,轻率的读者很容...
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評分 評分文/夏丽柠 约翰•威廉斯的《屠夫十字镇》貌似一本失败之书,却又隐藏希望。作者威廉斯教授,1922年生于美国的德克萨斯,因写作能力优异而到电台和报社工作。二战爆发后,他作为美国空军去印度和缅甸服役。战争接近尾声时,他先去丹佛读大学,又去密苏里大学读博士。1955年,...
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