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发表于2024-11-22
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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.
a hard, hot and hollow nut
評分挺有意思的一本書,西部生活百科。 看的時候腦子裏都是《八惡人》的畫麵,尤其是那大雪。
評分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。
評分Too much wordy description while the characters’ emotions remain flat and restrained. Honestly speaking I didn’t enjoy reading the book and just don’t like this “academic” style of fiction writing which has literally worn me out.
評分我實在太喜歡Williams的文筆瞭,exquisite, 簡直我的終極美學目標。完美的小說。
这部小说曾被誉为“最好的西部小说”,不过作者约翰·威廉斯却很不喜欢这一说法,也拒绝因此被贴上“西部文学大师”的标签。当然,他是对的:就像《红楼梦》不应由于主角们都是一群少男少女而被归类为“青春文学”一样,西部仅仅是《屠夫十字镇》故事发生的背景,但小说本身探...
評分约翰·威廉斯的小说产量很少,题材却遍及多样,中国读者最熟悉,也是他现在最著名的是几十年后被重新掘出,成为“新经典”的学院题材小说《斯通纳》,此外他还有历史小说《奥古斯都》和西部小说《屠夫十字镇》等作品。斯通纳本人是拒绝“西部小说”这个名号的,虽然印上这种标...
評分 評分 評分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...
Butcher's Crossing pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024