Butcher's Crossing
by John Williams
Taste attributes: westerndramahistoricaladventureslowunsavouryheavylinearemotive & stirringall consuming questhuman spirit/resilience/survivalself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeExpect a serious, unsavoury western, slow-burning rather than fast. Best if you like edge over warmth.
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Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
In the 1870s, 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 full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it.
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- Author
- John Williams
- Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 274
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- Open Library
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