Robert Olen Butler

SEVERANCE / INTERCOURSE ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

MARKETING & SALES POINTS Download high resolution image First book in the new No Exit Press Classic Double series; ace doubles featuring two books for Pub. Date: 27 October 2016 the same price as one Price: £12.99 Robert Olen Butler won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain to ISBN: 978-1-84344-759-7 be reissued by No Exit Press in July 2016 Binding: Paperback Format: Royal (234 x 153mm) Author to our major new literary novel Perfume River around UK Dec 2016 Extent: 208 Weight: 278g Robert Olen Butler's The Hot Country received widespread acclaim in Sunday Times, BBC Publishing UK & Commonwealth only, excl. History Magazine, Guardian, BBC R4 Saturday Review and the author was interviewed on BBC Rights: Canada: Exclusive. RoW.: Open Market R4 Front Row Sales UK & Commonwealth only, excl. THE BOOK Rights: Canada: Exclusive. RoW.: Open Market The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a Market: Black Humour, Fiction, Short Stories heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this, Robert Olen BIC Code: FYB: Short stories Butler wroteSeverance , sixty-two vignettes each exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts FA: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) that go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. Here are the imagined ultimate words of BISAC Code: FIC029000: Fiction : Short Stories (single famous and invented figures - Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a chicken, author) FIC019000: Fiction : Literary beheaded for Sunday dinner. THEMA Code: FYB: Short stories FBA: Modern & contemporary fiction Country of UK Following on from this, Butler addressed the question of: what goes through the mind of a person while having Manufacture: sex? Turning his daring imagination to the intimate, Butler lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and

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Marketing & PR PRAISE FOR SEVERANCE / INTERCOURSE Tel: 01582 766 348 [email protected] ''Severance is a dazzling tour of history and humanity as told by those who have lost their heads. From the

No Exit Press UK Distribution: Turnaround moment of death, we are given sixty-two perfect testaments to the joys of being alive. Robert Olen Butler has Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate once again proven himself to be one of the most profoundly creative voices in fiction today'' - Ann Patchett Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ ''In concept, Severance is brilliant. In execution, it's even better – beautiful, hilarious, horrifying and humane'' - Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com Dave Eggers ''With Severance, Butler has one-upped himself... he has brought the dead back to life, through the limitless will noexit.co.uk/noexit.co.uk/severanceintercourse @noexitpress of his imagination'' - New York Times 2 ''Intercourse is glorious... a deeply empathic experience for both writer and reader'' - Los Angeles Times ''Beautiful and sad, chilling and hilarious'' - Booklist

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. 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 in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. OTHER TITLES BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER

The Hot Country The Star of Istanbul The Empire of Night 978-1-84344-563-0 978-1-84344-567-8 978-1-84344-571-5

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Perfume River Paris In the Dark 978-1-84344-760-3 978-1-84344-964-5 978-1-84344-893-8

Late City 978-0-85730-489-6