Severance / Intercourse - Couverture souple

Butler, Robert Olen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843447592 ISBN 13 : 9781843447597

Editeur : No Exit Press, 2016

Synopsis

The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this, Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. Here are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures - Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner.

Following on from this, Butler addressed the question of: what goes through the mind of a person while having sex? Turning his daring imagination to the intimate, Butler lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings of fifty, often surprising, couples in Intercourse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: No Exit Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843447592
• ISBN 13: 9781843447597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible