Severance / Intercourse

By: Robert Olen Butler

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Paperback | 27 October 2016

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352 Pages

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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.

About the Author

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 13 novels, including Hell And A Small Hotel. 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 for Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

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