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For the first time, John Williams's three major works have come to be recognized as modern American classics and are collected in this volume. In Butcher's Crossing, he unsettles the conventions of the Western novel to tell the haunting story of a buffalo hunting expedition that exposes the savagery and greed behind the myth of the frontier. In Stoner, he portrays power politics in academe and the quiet heroism of a midwestern English professor dedicated to the honest and dogged pursuit of his craft. In Augustus, set in ancient Rome, Williams again takes on the subject of power—more particularly, in the author's own words, "the ambivalence between the public necessity and the private want or need." Augustus won the National Book Award in 1973. The volume also includes three essays by Williams on writing fiction and his speech upon accepting the National Book Award for Augustus.

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Publisher
Library of America
Year
2021
ISBN-13
9781598537024
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Power and politicsAncient RomeSacrifice of private life for public duty

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