Severance
Stories
By Robert Olen Butler
(Chronicle Books, Paperback, 9780811860987, 264pp.)
Publication Date: May 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (August 2006)
Categories: General
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Now available in an elegant paperback, Robert Olen Butler's acclaimed collection, Severance, depicts the final thoughts of people as they are losing their heads. Celebrated as 'glorious' (Los Angeles Times), these fascinating stories reveal 'the limitless will of the author's imagination' (New York Times). 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.
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.
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