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"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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Tabloid Dreams
• Author: Robert Olen Butler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780802120984
• ISBN: 0802120989
• ID: 04711680
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 137 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2013

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