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Review "One of the finest books about the elusive nature of the West ever written...It's a graceful and brutal story of isolated men gone haywire." --_Time Out New York_ "Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone,'' _Butcher's Crossing'' _paved the way for Cormac McCarthy. It was perhaps the first and best revisionist western." --_The New York Times Book Review_ "One of the finest novels of the West ever to come out of the West."--_The Denver Post_ "Williams didn't write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it's a shame that he's not more often read today...But it's great that at least two of his novels [_Stoner, Butcher's Crossing_] have found their way back into print." --_The Denver Post_ “Reading John Williams–even to have done so at the time these novels were written–is an exercise in nostalgia, a nostalgia found also in writers like Willa Cather, for whom the West represented a lost redoubt of intellectual dignity...It is tempting to say that Cather's tradition flagged because the West has changed – it is no longer anybody's bildungsroman–but it is safer to say that writers as talented and right-minded as J

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Author
Williams, John; Latiolais, Michelle
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published
1988
Language
EN
ISBN
9781590174241
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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