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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 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 find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
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 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 find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Michelle Latiolais is an associate professor of English at the UC Irvine. Her novel, Even Now, won a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. She has recently published fiction and essays in The Antioch Review, Santa Monica Review, and ZYZZYVA.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 274 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781590171981 |
| ISBN-10: | 1590171985 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Williams, John |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
NYRB Classics |
| Maße: | 203 x 160 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Williams |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2007 |
| Gewicht: | 0,298 kg |
Michelle Latiolais is an associate professor of English at the UC Irvine. Her novel, Even Now, won a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. She has recently published fiction and essays in The Antioch Review, Santa Monica Review, and ZYZZYVA.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 274 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781590171981 |
| ISBN-10: | 1590171985 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Williams, John |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
NYRB Classics |
| Maße: | 203 x 160 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Williams |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2007 |
| Gewicht: | 0,298 kg |
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