Severance: Stories by Robert Olen Butler - 2006-08-10

Chronicle Books LLC, 2006. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Chronicle Books, 2006-08-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x5x1. The binding is tight, corners sharp. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

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US: Chronicle Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 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… Read More

Chronicle Books, 2006-08-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 5x0x7. First printing as new. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.