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.