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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

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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