Alan Heathcock

Volt (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice

One man kills another after neither will move his 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, Alan 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 hell-bent on wrenching out whatever beauty this savage world has to offer, Heathcock's tales of lives set afire light up the sky like signal flares touched off in a moment of desperation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graywolf Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781555970253
• Artikelnr.: 53998704

Autorenporträt

Alan Heathcock has won a Whiting Award and a National Magazine Award, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers¿ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers¿ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. His story collection Volt was selected as a best book of the year by numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune ; was named a New York Times Editors¿ Choice; and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.