{"product_id":"9781590171981","title":"Butcher's Crossing","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his National Book Award–winning novel \u003ci\u003eAugustus\u003c\/i\u003e, John Williams uncovered the secrets  of ancient Rome. With \u003ci\u003eButcher’s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written  western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"John Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45892727505108,"sku":"9781590171981","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d207bce5-f0fe-45ab-a2ff-ba689134bb4f.jpg?v=1732464572","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590171981","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}