Severance: Stories
by Butler, Robert Olen
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0811860981
- ISBN 13
- 9780811860987
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Chronicle Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Synopsis: Robert Owen Butler, Pulitzer-prize winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain", is one of the most inventive writers of our time. This book is inspired by the juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated facts: first, that the human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation, and second, that, in a heightened state of emotion, we speak at the rate of 160 words per minute.Based on this maths, he has written sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, giving voice to the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind in the minute and a half after their head has been severed. The beheading's are both real and imagined - of characters ranging from Valeria Messalina, beheaded by her husband, Emperor Claudius I of Rome in 48AD, to Anne Boleyn beheaded by Henry VIII in 1536, to a chicken beheaded for Sunday dinner in Alabama in 1958, to the author himself, decapitated on the job in 2008. The final thoughts are not morbid or macabre, but are a way of looking back on a person's life and the world they inhabited. Each is told with the intensity of poetry and the wit of a great storyteller.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003592
- Title
- Severance: Stories
- Author
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0811860981
- ISBN 13
- 9780811860987
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 264
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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