In Volt, Heathcock does it eight times, with a remarkable sense of compassion, and a deeply felt understanding of the mechanics of mourning. The need for isolation—the urge to disappear—is a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Populated by folks scraping by under the poverty line in a rural setting, Alan Heathcock's Volt (Graywolf Press) easily qualifies as country noir, Winter's Bone with fewer meth addicts. A son helps his injured father drag a body up a hill, wrapped in a handmade quilt. ALAN HEATHCOCK' s debut collection, VOLT, was a "Best Book″ selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ,Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors' Choice, and was a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, and a .
"Alan Heathcock is an epic storyteller—and Volt is an epic collection. You will come away from each of these majestic stories thrilled, alternately terrified and heartened, ultimately full of wonder at how the author manages to make twenty pages so timeless, so deep and sweeping—every story like a novel writ small.". Volt, by Alan Heathcock. Tyler McMahon loves short stories but worries that collections might be the worst thing to have happened to the genre. However, books like Alan Heathcock's Volt renew his faith in the collection as an art form of its own, one that makes its stories inseparable from one another—greater even than the sum of their parts. 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.
In Volt, Heathcock does it eight times, with a remarkable sense of compassion, and a deeply felt understanding of the mechanics of mourning. The need for isolation—the urge to disappear—is a. Alan Heathcock’s ‘Volt’ Delivers Cinematic Stories of Small Town Noir Boise writer Alan Heathcock makes a strong debut with Volt. By Jenny Shank, Volt by Alan Heathcock Graywolf Press, pages, $15 Boise writer Alan Heathcock‘s gripping debut short story collection Volt is an intricately crafted examination of a fictional small town called Krafton that could be located anywhere in rural America. “Alan Heathcock’s VOLT carves characters from the grains of the earth. Alan is our next Cormac McCarthy.” VOLT reviewed in GQ. 4. OXFORD AMERICAN “In Volt, the characters in these stories collide with forces that are beyond their control. These stories remind us that we are defined by how we respond to hard situations in life, not easy ones.
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