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Magazine: 18 January 2014
Adam Foulds

Butcher's Crossing is not at all like Stoner — but it's just as superbly written

Another John Williams novel has been republished, this one set in the bleak and rugged American West

From magazine issue: 18 January 2014
Butcher's Crossing is not at all like Stoner — but it's just as superbly written
circa 1870: A wagon train of Rocky Mountain emigrants crossing the plains of America into Oregon to set up their homesteads in the West. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)
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Butcher’s Crossing

John Williams

Vintage Classics, pp. 324, £

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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £8.54. Tel: 08430 600033

Butcher’s Crossing

John Williams

Vintage Classics, pp. 324, £

Stoner
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John Williams

Vintage Classics, pp. 324, £

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