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.
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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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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。
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。
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