Author: Robert Olen Butler
Year: 1996
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Short Stories, Humor
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ISBNs:
9780802120984
9780805055894
0802120989
0805055894 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Butler finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, a dozen tabloid headlines that, in his hands, become titles for first-person vignettes. Rather than merely capitalize on the inherent absurdity of the headlines, as one might expect, Butler generates throughout a surprisingly compelling mix of fantasy and pathos.
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- Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed
- Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Philandering Husband
- Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis
- Woman Loses Cookie Bake-Off, Sets Self on Fire
- Jealous Husband Returns in Form Of Parrot
- Woman Struck by Car Turns Into Nymphomaniac
- Nine-Year-Old Boy Is World's Youngest Hit Man
- Every Man She Kisses Dies
- Doomsday Meteor Is Coming
- Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover
- JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction
- Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle
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