Robert Olen Butler

Severance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'In concept, Severance is brilliant. In execution, it's even better - beautiful, hilarious, horrifying and humane' - Dave Eggers

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.

'Severance is a dazzling tour of history and humanity as told by those who have lost their heads. From the moment of death, we are given sixty-two perfect testaments to the joys of being alive. Robert Olen Butler has once again proven himself to be one of the most profoundly creative voices in fiction today' - Ann Patchett

'With Severance, Butler has one-upped himself... he has brought the dead back to life, through the limitless will of his imagination' - New York Times

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Exit Press
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843447566
• Artikelnr.: 42915087

Autorenporträt

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.