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Alan Heathcock

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Alan Heathcock’s fiction has been published in many of America’s top magazines and journals, including Zoetrope: All-Story, Kenyon Review,VQR, Five Chapters, Storyville, and The Harvard Review. His stories have won the National Magazine Award in fiction, and have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories anthology. VOLT, a collection of stories published by Graywolf Press, was a “Best Book 2011″ 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, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as for inclusion in the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Hea...more


Average rating: 3.97 · 625 ratings · 129 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Volt
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 631 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Short Story America: Volume II
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

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“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.”
Alan Heathcock, Volt

“Things vanished. People vanished. Clouds gave way to sun gave way to night. Only feelings, like spirits, endured, branded to the back of our eyes, laced into our marrow.”
Alan Heathcock, Volt

“The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.”
Alan Heathcock, Volt

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