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Butcher's crossing
- Narrated by: Federico Vellani
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Sono gli anni Settanta dell'Ottocento. Will Andrews, dopo tre anni a Harvard, lascia il Massachusetts e, pieno di vaghi sogni e aspirazioni emersoniane verso la Natura Selvaggia, va all'Ovest. Si trova così a Butcher's Crossing, poco più che un rozzo accampamento ai margini del nulla abitato da uomini duri, sempre in cerca di un modo per fare soldi, o per scialacquarli. È proprio uno di questi individui che racconta all'ex studente di una meravigliosa valle nascosta tra le Rocky Mountains, popolata di immense mandrie di bisonti che non hanno mai conosciuto l'odore, o il fucile, dell'uomo. Aspettano solo di essere cacciati e scuoiati da uomini abbastanza coraggiosi, o abbastanza folli, da riuscire a scovarli. Andrews sarà uno di loro. Ma la realtà di ciò che lo attende, ciò che scoprirà su di sé e sul suo Paese, non è quello che aveva immaginato.
Lirico e spietato, epico e dissacrante, Butcher's Crossing è un potente romanzo di formazione e la cronaca della fine di un'epoca; il racconto di una trasformazione personale e collettiva; ma soprattutto una riflessione, di penetrante profondità, sul rapporto tra essere umano e natura.