Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
Published 1960 · 274 pages · 75,350 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
How hard is Butcher's Crossing to read?
Butcher's Crossing scores 27 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
How Butcher's Crossing is regarded
Butcher's Crossing holds a literary regard score of 46 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.
Where the story of Butcher's Crossing takes place
- Kansas plains & Colorado, 1870s (1873 to 1874), the main setting