Tabloid Dreams (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Olen Butler
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Journalism or journalists, Parents and children, Love or romance, Marriage, Alienation, Fathers, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Newspapers, Life and death
Before the publication of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992), which eventually went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Olen Butler had the reputation of being a “writer’s writer,” but his work had yet to find a large appreciative audience. He had published six novels—The Alleys of Eden (1981), Sun Dogs (1982), Countrymen of Bones (1983), On Distant Ground (1985), Wabash (1987), and The Deuce (1989)—all of which consistently gathered good reviews but modest sales. As a mid-list author, Butler seemed fated for a long-...
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