Severance: Stories - Couverture rigide

Butler, Robert Olen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0811856143 ISBN 13 : 9780811856140

Editeur : Chronicle Books, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Robert Olen Butler

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. The characters are both real and imagined Medusa (beheaded by Perseus, 2000 BC), Anne Boleyn (beheaded at the behest of Henry VIII, 1536), a chicken (beheaded for Sunday dinner, Alabama, 1958), and the author (decapitated, on the job, 2008). Told with the intensity of a poet and the wit of a great storyteller, these final thoughts illuminate and crystallize more about the characters' own lives and the worlds they inhabit than many writers manage to convey in full-length biographies or novels. The stories, which have appeared in literary magazines across the country, are a delightful and intriguing creative feat from one of today's most inventive writers.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert Olen Butler, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is the author of many lauded works of fiction. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chronicle Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0811856143
• ISBN 13: 9780811856140
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264