About the Author

Award-winning novelist Robert Owen Butler has published 10 novels and three volumes of short fiction, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992). His stories have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and GQ. Butler is a recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2001 he won a National Magazine Award in Fiction for his story "Fair Warning."

Reviews

"Butler seals the deal with crystalline prose, a dark imagination and some moments of light camp." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, April 7, 2008
..".titillating and meaty." New York Magazine"