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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.
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.
看到50%的时候就觉得:必须得要死人这故事才算了。
评分看到50%的时候就觉得:必须得要死人这故事才算了。
评分挺有意思的一本书,西部生活百科。 看的时候脑子里都是《八恶人》的画面,尤其是那大雪。
评分2017.9.21~2017.10.16 果不其然是个悲剧。没有一个是圣人,没有一个是坏人,所有角色都有其弱点和优点。这个故事里的人物刻画比STONER里的要立体。阅读的过程中会一直脑补The Revenant里的场景,若拍成电影,应该就是这个样子吧。
评分我实在太喜欢Williams的文笔了,exquisite, 简直我的终极美学目标。完美的小说。
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评分在谈论以品钦、德里罗为代表的当代作家作品时,文学评论家詹姆斯•伍德使用了“歇斯底里现实主义”的断语。他认为,现代派小说无论从结构还是篇幅都称得上是“巨无霸”。作家们雄心勃勃,一方面沿袭狄更斯以来严整的叙事体系,一方面穷尽后现代把戏颠覆前人,洋洋洒洒近千页...
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