Severance: What goes through a person's mind before they are beheaded?
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- Synopsis
- 'In concept, Severance is brilliant. In execution, it’s even better – beautiful, hilarious, horrifying and humane' – Dave EggersThe 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
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781843447566
- Publisher:
- Oldcastle Books, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 04/24/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Robert Olen Butler
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.