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Butcher's Crossing

Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Williams, John
Medienkennzeichen: evm
Jahr: 2011
Verlag: Random House Digital Dist
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In his National Book AwardâEuro"winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With ButcherâEuros Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, ï²red up by Emerson to seek âEuro²an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in ButcherâEuros Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere.ButcherâEuros 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 ButcherâEuros Crossing to ï²nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

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Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Williams, John
Medienkennzeichen: evm
Jahr: 2011
Verlag: Random House Digital Dist
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ISBN: 9781590174241
Beschreibung: 296 S.
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Sprache: Englisch
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