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.
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.
發表於2025-02-26
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“有誰的身世聽起來比你更可憐?有誰在凶惡的災難中遭遇著人生的變遷,比你更可憐?” ——古希臘悲劇《俄狄浦斯王》 從《斯通納》到《屠夫十字鎮》,讀者的視野由學院生活延伸到西部曠野,你會發現作傢約翰•威廉斯總有意無意地踩在小說分類的邊緣,輕率的讀者很容...
評分至今,約翰 威廉斯目前已經有中文版的三本小說《奧古斯都》、《斯通納》、《屠夫十字鎮》均看完。意想不到的是,三者中豆瓣評分最低的《屠夫十字鎮》反而是我最喜歡的。 這本書寫的是來自波士頓大城市的受過良好教育的年輕人,來到西部尋找自我的故事。在殘忍、荒蕪的大自然裏...
評分終於在國慶期間讀完瞭《屠夫十字鎮》。 跟上一本看作者另一部小說《斯通納》一樣簡單的劇情。“尋找自我”的主人公安德魯斯從哈佛輟學,想遠離父輩和社會的枷鎖來到西部兜一下風。他來到屠夫鎮,遇到瞭想著徵服自然的米勒和相信上帝的查理,帶上現實派的是施內德,開始他們屠...
評分 評分2016上半年,一部濛塵五十年的長篇小說《斯通納》重新齣土,一夕間聲名鵲起。齣版公司做瞭大張旗鼓的營銷和宣傳,文藝網站豆瓣也是鋪天蓋地的傳播與評論。該書作者是美國作傢約翰·威廉斯,而對我們讀者來說,和這本作品一樣,這位學者、作傢也是一張陌生的麵孔。 約翰·威廉...
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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The bulk of description wore me out, and I just wanted to be done with it. (Oh and I kept thinking of movies like Bounty Hunters and the Hateful Eight while I was reading.) I like Williams the most when he gets into inner workings of his characters; the ending and the opening are really good.
Butcher's Crossing 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載