"Tabloid Dreams is full-blown American magical realism: funny, lyrical, striking, its stories seek and find meaning in our very own myths, the ones we characteristically reinvent every few years to fit our fears and fantasies/5(13). · Robert Olen Butler is the author of ten novels and two collections of stories. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize in and a National Magazine Award in (both for fiction), he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant, as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Share - Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler (, Trade Paperback) Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler (, Trade Paperback) Be the first to write a review. About this product. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. Brand new. $ Pre-owned.
Buy Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Analysis and discussion of characters in Robert Olen Butler's Tabloid Dreams. Search this site Go Ask a Start your hour free trial to unlock this Tabloid Dreams study guide. Tabloid Dreams, Robert Olen Butler's second collection of short stories, is hilarious, insightful, poignant, and, most of all, introspective. So you probably wouldn't want to read these stories straight through in one sitting like, say, the Weekly World News or the National Enquirer.
"Tabloid Dreams is an unrepeatable feat, a tour de force. -- The Washington Post Book World "In this new collection of stories, Butler has taken a ham's material and fashioned it into a dozen artful and wondrous tales, once again proving himself to be the rarest kind of writer, one who can't be pigeonholed, who doesn't rely on a set, safe shtick but keeps challenging himself with new and varied material.". In his second collection, Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his empathy for odd and ostracized denizens of humanity. Using tabloid headlines as inspiration—”Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis,” “Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac,” “JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction”—Butler moves from the fantastic to the realistic, exploring enduring cultural issues of exile, loss, and aspiration. "Tabloid Dreams" is like the sit-com version of the works of Edgar Allen Poe. There are so many dead bodies by the time we get to the end of the collection that we marvel at all the different ways they've died.
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