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发表于2024-11-10
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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.
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。
評分a hard, hot and hollow nut
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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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,...
Butcher's Crossing pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024