{"id":763,"date":"2016-12-20T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T21:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:01:24","slug":"professors-award-winning-novel-to-be-published-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/professors-award-winning-novel-to-be-published-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor&#8217;s Award-Winning Novel To Be Published in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bourelle won the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize for his novel,\u00a0<em>Heavy Metal<\/em>, a comming-of-age-story that gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the suicide of his mother.<\/p>\n<p>A real gut-punch of a novel,\u00a0<em>Heavy Metal<\/em>\u00a0 sings with energy and beauty and honest abandon about grief and hope and trying to find one\u2019s balance in an unsteady world. At a certain point, the young narrator shoots a bottle out of the sky. \u201cThe glass explodes like a bottle rocket,\u201d as he tells it, \u201cThe shards glinting in the firelight underneath the gray-lit sky.\u201d The same can be said for this novel and family, both of which explode \u201clike a bottle rocket, the shards glinting in the firelight underneath the gray-lit sky.\u201d \u2014William Lychack<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Coake writes:\u00a0<i>Heavy Metal<\/i>\u00a0 is a brilliant debut novel, at once an incisive, complex character study of damaged youth and a ferociously exciting page-turner. Andrew Bourelle knows that suspense is created not only by a loaded gun, but by the fears of the person holding it. He\u2019s written one of the best novels I\u2019ve read in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>It will be published in February of this year by Autumn House Press.\u00a0Pre-order it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1938769191.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bourelle won the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize for his novel,\u00a0Heavy Metal, a comming-of-age-story that gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the suicide of his mother. A real gut-punch of a novel,\u00a0Heavy Metal\u00a0 sings with energy and beauty and honest abandon about grief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}