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.
发表于2025-03-12
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评分文/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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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.
确实精彩,发现了中文版中删减的段落,不知道是故意的还是忘记翻译了,,米勒在后形象落差真的太可怕了,但确实非常真实令人信服。
评分John Williams的小说写的真好,这本的确与Stoner有异曲同工之妙
评分大爱john williams,字字珠玑,从stoner到这本就没有让我失望过。与其说这是一部经典西部拓荒小说,不如说是一部讲述少年从初步尘世对自然抱有不切实际的浪漫幻想 到真正从自然原始力量之中逐渐寻找到真我的bildungsroman。
评分Stoner給的觸動太大 所以這本只能感到泛泛 對西部本就沒大興趣 唯一是黑暗中小鎮上的一個prostitude在黑暗中牽Andrew的手穿過無光的通道那一幕 看了幾遍
评分确实精彩,发现了中文版中删减的段落,不知道是故意的还是忘记翻译了,,米勒在后形象落差真的太可怕了,但确实非常真实令人信服。
Butcher's Crossing 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书