Severance

Now available in an elegant paperback, Robert Olen Butler's acclaimed collection, Severance , depicts the final thoughts of people as they are losing their heads. Celebrated as "glorious" ( Los Angeles Times ), these fascinating stories reveal "the limitless will of the author's imagination" ( New York Times ). 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.Butler, Robert Olen is the author of 'Severance', published 2008 under ISBN 9780811860987 and ISBN 0811860981.