Butchers Crossing

Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174240
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Crossing written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. 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 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.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598537024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349) written by John Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a collected edition of the major works of John Williams, including the acclaimed novel Stoner. John Williams’s three major works have come to be recognized as modern American classics and are collected in this Library of America volume for the first time. In Butcher’s Crossing, he unsettles the conventions of the Western novel to tell the haunting story of a buffalo hunting expedition that exposes the savagery and greed behind the myth of the frontier. In Stoner, he portrays power politics in academe and the quiet heroism of a midwestern English professor dedicated to the honest and dogged pursuit of his craft. In Augustus, set in ancient Rome, Williams again takes on the subject of power—more particularly, in the author’s own words, “the ambivalence between the public necessity and the private want or need.” Rounding out the volume are three essays by Williams on writing fiction and his speech upon accepting the National Book Award for Augustus in 1973.

Author : Don Carpenter
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173902
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Rain Falling written by Don Carpenter and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448180961
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus written by John Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen: Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor. Building on impeccable research, John Williams brings the legendary figure of Augustus vividly to life, and invests his characters with such profound humanity that we enter completely into the heat and danger of their lives and times.

Author : Philip Brookman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869306865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redlands written by Philip Brookman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redlands weaves together an intimate sequence of photographs and a short story by Philip Brookman, set in California, Mexico and New York City during the unsettled decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Brookman uses fiction and images from his own photographic diaries to create a first-person account of Kip, an artist who wanders back and forth between farmworkers and poets--between California and New York--seeking to question the meaning of his mother's death. When Kip learns that he can't trust the eyewitness accounts of his sister, he picks up a camera to find meaning in his own experience. By juxtaposing the oppositional strategies of fiction and documentary practice to find an invented narrative, Redlands questions the veracity of logical observation and embraces the poetry of the real world.

Author : Lionel Trilling
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670474400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle of the Journey written by Lionel Trilling and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1947 as the Cold War was heating up, Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the ideological conflicts that would come to a head in the McCarthy era. But this work of complex deliberation, high passion, and tragic import is no less striking for its richly detailed, often slyly humorous picture of the manners and mores of the intelligentsia.

Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 9781606905753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim Butcher's Dresden Files written by Jim Butcher and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collects materials originally published in Jim Butcher's The Dresden files: War cry #1-5."

Author : Martin Dillon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409065227
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shankill Butchers written by Martin Dillon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases 'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times 'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of British-Irish politics. He stands alone as one of the most creative writers of our time' Irish Times ________________________________ 'This was the ultimate way to kill a man.' In the 1970s, in some of the most violent days of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Catholics dead in the Shankill area of Belfast. Their leader was Lenny Murphy: a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname had led to his persecution as a child, Murphy swore revenge on all Catholics, and with his gang wreaked havoc onto an already fractured city. Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchers is a horrifying and detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal history - a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the troubled and violent context from which it sprang.

Author : John Edward Williams
Publisher : Fazi Editore
ISBN 13 : 8864119515
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Crossing written by John Edward Williams and published by Fazi Editore. This book was released on 2013-02-20T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ci sono voluti cinquant’anni per riscoprire John Williams e ora che il lettore italiano ha celebrato la pubblicazione di Stoner, ecco l’altro capolavoro di uno dei più significativi scrittori americani del secolo scorso.

Author : John Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783423145183
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Crossing written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: