![]() In order to stay alive, he quickly adapted to a life of crime. ![]() Growing up in poverty, he was exposed to robbery and murder at a tender age. ![]() Gaza was born and raised in McGregor Gully, one of Jamaica's grittiest housing projects in the slums of East Kingston. 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. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. 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. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. 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. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. 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. ![]() With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. ![]()
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