In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

1952 film directed by Fred Zinnemann

2020 film directed by Chloé Zhao

◆《斯通纳》作者约翰•威廉斯另一绝佳作品。一部年轻人带着寻找美好、摆脱庸俗日常生活的冲动，去旷野探寻世界源头的小说。一个关于寻找与梦想，信念、信仰和仪式，生存与改变的故事。 ◆《屠夫十字镇》比《斯通纳》更想了解世界的真实。它们同是一个有关面对无意义事物的坚忍，有关天真所致失败的故事。与坚守信念的斯通纳不同，这是一个带着激情、对未知充满好奇的年轻人，渴望寻求真实的世界：他所相信的，不是爱默生和梭罗等人的信念，而是相信背后的看见——除了旷野与经历，没有什么比内心的冲动更真诚、更迷人。同时，他在某种意义上又与斯通纳相同，他们做到了自我的实现。也许，我们每个人身上都有这样的冲动、激情，也造就了如今的自己。 ◆对年轻人的心灵进行的深入思索。作者约翰•威廉斯说，当一个从哈佛辍学的年轻人，来到西部看到了自然，看到了旷野的真实面貌，对他来说，会发生什么呢？这就是小说开始的地方。 ———————————— 《屠夫十字镇》讲述的是一个在1873年从哈佛辍学的年轻人安德鲁斯，受爱默生和梭罗等人的自然观念影响，带着寻找美好、希望和活力的冲动，来到屠夫十字镇，并跟随猎人米勒和其他两人（剥皮人施耐德和随营干杂活的查理•霍格）进入科罗拉多山区猎捕野牛。他们各自带着不同的目的和想法，踏上了这次前途未卜的旅程。他们经历重重困难，还丢掉了一个人的性命，才重回屠夫十字镇，但这里却发生了翻天覆地的变化…… ———————————— 约翰•威廉斯的小说一向犀利冷静，不留情面，但都同时传递着这样一份乐观，它相当坚定而强韧：他相信我们有能力从生活的绝境中拯救某些价值。——《泰晤士报文学增刊》（The Times Literary Supplement） 坚韧，刺破一切幻象，但怀抱着对美及生命的敏感的温柔。——《旁观者》（The Spectator） 消释荒野中的勇气传说与英雄赞歌的解毒剂。——英国《每日快报》（Dail Express）