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Butcher´s Crossing: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stoner
John Williams
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Description for Butcher´s Crossing: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stoner
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589679
SKU
V9780099589679
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-22
About John Williams
John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to ... Read more
Reviews for Butcher´s Crossing: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stoner
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
Irish Times
Shorn of sentimentality or decoration, the events and places [Williams] describes begin to feel inescapable, permanent, and rivetingly dramatic. This is language ... Read more
Kate Atkinson
Irish Times
Shorn of sentimentality or decoration, the events and places [Williams] describes begin to feel inescapable, permanent, and rivetingly dramatic. This is language ... Read more