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Stories
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“This is a big, ravishing, commanding story collection.
Heathcock presents a riveting portrait of an imaginary town called Krafton:
through its streets and farms and minds spin questions about civilization and
wilderness, lawkeeping and lawlessness, faith and faithlessness. Each story in
its way shows how we reverberate after tragedy, and how we try—and sometimes
fail—to vibrate our way back toward equilibrium. Volt is (dare I say it?) electrifying.”
—Anthony Doerr,
author of Memory Wall
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Price: $15.00 USD
*A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection*
One man kills another after neither will move their pickup
truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a
murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his
grief sets him off walking, mile after mile. A band of teens bent on
destruction runs amok in a deserted town at night. As these men and women lash
out at the inscrutable churn of the world around them, they find a grim measure
of peace in their solitude.
Throughout Volt, Heathcock’s
stark realism is leavened by a lyric energy that matches the brutality of the
surface. And as you move through the wind-lashed landscape of these stories,
faint signs of hope appear underfoot. In Volt,
the work of a writer who’s hellbent on wrenching out whatever beauty this
savage world has to offer, Alan Heathcock’s tales of lives set afire light up
the sky like signal flares touched off in a moment of desperation.
“Misery is in plentiful supply in these dark, thickly
atmospheric tales of spiritual desolation and savagery. Fans of William Gay and
Daniel Woodrell will savor these stories where sin and suffering shroud the
hope of redemption.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Heathcock is a writer to watch; each of these subtle
stories will thrill readers with an element of surprise that will make them
want to go back and see how it happened and what they missed along the way.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“Raw and rugged, the stories in Heathcock’s collection
push up against the sharp edge of a world where people live and die, and find
any redemption hard-won and sometimes bittersweet.”
“Alan Heathcock’s voice is the American voice, doing what
it was meant to do. It’s full of distance and wind, highways and heart. He’s
the real deal.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea,
author of Into the Beautiful North
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