ANDREW BOURELLE'S novel, Heavy Metal, was the winner of the 2016 Autumn House Press Fiction Contest. Bourelle has published numerous short stories in literary magazines and fiction anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories. He teaches writing at the University of New Mexico.
Reading this novel awakened a painful nostalgia that made me pucker
like I'd just bitten into a fresh square of grape-flavored Hubba
Bubba. Imagine a John Hughes film colliding with S.E. Hinton's THE
OUTSIDERS and then paint that image just a shade or two
darker.--Anne Weyer "Mid-American Review" (1/1/2018 12:00:00
AM)
...while Heavy Metal deals with many dark subjects, it's also a
story about brothers, bonds, first loves and even hope. All of
these themes add up to a brilliant story that is both entertaining
and captivating. http: //www.mymiamicounty.com/heavy-metal--Matt
Bayman "My Miami County" (1/31/2017 12:00:00 AM)
Nearly everything I want in a novel, I found in Heavy Metal:
scumbag teenagers, '80s rock, Taco Bell (so much shit goes down at
the Taco Bell). But what I like most about it is the way Bourelle
leans into metal's essential uncoolness. The main characters are
dorky. They smoke and chug beer, but they spend most of their free
time mixing Jell-O and ketchup into milk and daring each other to
drink it, smashing up already smashed-up cars at the junkyard, and
playing Judas Priest deep cuts during dates. Bourelle couples this
refusal to glamorize with a tenderness for his characters. Even
when they are at their worst, he asks you to love them. And it's
hard not to. http:
//fictionwritersreview.com/review/heavy-metal-by-andrew-bourelle/--Emily
Nagin "Fiction Writers Review" (7/3/2017 12:00:00 AM)
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