Butchers Crossing Audiobook by John Williams

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Butchers Crossing Author: John Williams Narrator: Anthony Heald Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 07-23-10 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 170 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: 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 paradisiacal 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. Critic Reviews: Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone, Butchers Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy. It was perhaps the first and best revisionist western. ( The New York Times Book Review) [This story] becomes a young man's search for the integrity of his own being....The characters are defined, the events lively, the place, the smells, the sounds right. And the prose is superb." ( Chicago Tribune)