Volt: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555975777)

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.

Author: Alan Heathcock
ISBN-10: 1555975771
ISBN-13: 9781555975777
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Award: Discover Great New Writers - Third Place

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 53
New York Times Book Review 03/27/2011 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 04/03/2011 pg. 26
Library Journal 01/01/2011 pg. 91
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2010 pg. 1232
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 24
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Foreword 02/28/2011