Butcher's Crossing
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Butcher's Crossing
Narrated by:
Anthony Heald
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Narrated by:
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Anthony Heald
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Written by:
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John Williams
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.
In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their limits.
©2023 John Williams (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Critic Reviews
His Stoner is the book that has garnered the attention, but I prefer this earlier take on the Western genre…it has some gory, visceral passages that are not for the faint-hearted (Kate Atkinson)
Shorn of sentimentality or decoration, the events and places [Williams] describes begin to feel inescapable, permanent, and rivetingly dramatic. This is language that seems to be carved into stone – into mountains... Stoner showed us a writer who had written a great book. To those of us who didn't know already, Butcher's Crossing reveals John Williams to be more than that: forgotten writer as he was, he was unquestionably also a great one (Archie Bland)
Superbly understated (Rosemary Goring)
One of the finest books about the elusive nature of the West ever written… It’s a graceful and brutal story of isolated men gone haywire
Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butcher’s Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy
Butcher's Crossing is like a western by Joseph Conrad...wonderful...beautifully written (David Nicholls)
This story about the hunt of one of the last great buffalo herds becomes a young man’s search for the integrity of his own being…The characters are defined, the events lively, the place, the smells, the sounds right. And the prose is superb
It is the novel's immense visual power and tangibility of material detail, its fully realized sense of time and place, its telling incidents, its nimble and subtle resonance with the Bible, and its fleshed-out characters, that make it a very great work
John Williams's unsparing novels express a highly qualified though resilient optimism about our ability to salvage something of value from life's impossible conditions. Along with the necessary isolation of the artist, he conveys the sobering if startled recognition--perhaps with his own career in mind--of the transitory triumph of art
Butcher’s Crossing is remarkable for the accuracy of Williams’s prose (John Sutherland)
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