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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Volt
• Author: Alan Heathcock
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9781555975777
• ISBN: 1555975771
• ID: 04479713
• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Weight: 296 g
• Dimensions: 207 × 139 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. July 2012

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