Severance by Robert Olen Butler

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U.S.A.: Chronicle Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Synopsis: Robert Owen Butler, Pulitzer-prize winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain", is one of the most inventive writers of our time. This book is inspired by the juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated facts: first, that the human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation, and second, that, in a heightened state of emotion, we speak at the rate of 160 words per minute.Based on this maths, he has written sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, giving voice to the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person's mind in the minute and a half after their head has been severed. The beheading's are both real and imagined - of characters ranging from Valeria Messalina, beheaded by her husband, Emperor Claudius I of Rome in 48AD, to Anne Boleyn beheaded by Henry VIII… Read More