VOLT
By Alan Heathcock
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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March 1st, 2011
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Reviews
“Several of these stories celebrating such country matters stand as tall as most of the best stories by many of our most accomplished writers.”
-The Chicago Tribune
“Frankly, there is little to fault in any of the eight stories that make up this collection. Undoubtedly, there is much grit and violence in this world, but there is also an abundance of tenderness and compassion. Heathcock displays a generosity of spirit that only those writers who love their characters can summon, and “Volt” is galvanizing proof of his talent.”
–The New York Times.
“VOLT is a near perfect collection of stories.”
-The American Book Review
“Alan Heathcock’s VOLT carves characters from the grains of the earth. Alan is our next Cormac McCarthy.”
–GQ
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