Butcher'S Crossing [Audiobook] download free by John Williams
- Listen audiobook: Butcher'S Crossing
- Author: John Williams
- Release date: 2015/3/24
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9781590171981
- Rating: 10 of 10
- Votes: 367
- Review by: Rivka Acuna
- Review rating: 7.79 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 3H39M7S in 256 kbps (59.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, MP3, WMA, MPEG-4 DST (compression TAR.BZ, GZ, RAR, ZIP, 7Z)
- Total pages original book: 296
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M34S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Westerns, Contemporary Fiction, Adventure Books, Classic Books & Novels
- Download servers: Torrent, BitShare, Microsoft OneDrive, Torrentz2, Google Drive. Compressed in TAR.BZ, GZ, RAR, ZIP, 7Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.98 USD
- Dimensions: 125x230x16.26mm
- Weight: 300g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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