Tabloid Dreams Contributor(s): Butler, Robert Olen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802120989 ISBN-13: 9780802120984 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force. --The Washington Post Book World In Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his empathy for eccentric and ostracized characters. Using tabloid headlines as inspiration--Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis, Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac, and JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction--Butler moves from the fantastic to the realistic, exploring enduring concepts of exile, loss, aspiration, and the search for self. Along the way, the cast includes a woman who can see through her glass eye when it's removed from the socket, a widow who sets herself on fire after losing a baking competition, a nine-year-old hit man, and a woman who dates an extraterrestrial she met in a Walmart parking lot. Tabloid Dreams weaves a seamless tapestry of high and low culture, of the surreal, sordid, and humorously sad. |