274 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 1988 by University of Arkansas Press.
Why everyone goes nuts for "Stoner". This is his best work.
John Williams superb prose re-examines the Westerner genre in this tale about a young man heading west to find himself. The action centers around a buffalo hunt instead of a big showdown at the corral. Will, the young man searchers to find meaning in the nothingness, the waste.
The river crossing scene gave me flashbacks to As I Lay Dying.
The slaughter of the buffaloes takes on more of a destruction of our earth and global warming and its blood lust reminded me of Mel Gibson's the Passion of the Christ.
I was impressed by the detail of life on the hunt and out west and this quite a different book from William's Stoner, but both are amazing reads.
quite good. reviews I have found do not compare it to heart of darkness.
