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Hundred Proof is a collection of short stories by Scott Wolven, whose collection Controlled Burn drew comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson, with the title story selected for Best American Noir of The Century by James Ellroy. The stories in Hundred Proof give readers more of Wolven's distinct voice, exploring crime and the violence that comes with it across a hardboiled landscape. Joyce Carol Oates writes (on the story Barracuda) ""...defies expectations at virtually every turn, as willfully shapeless as life... cuts from scene to scene with the nervous energy of a hand-held camera. For Wolven's men-loggers, tree poachers, corrupt cops-the impulse to do terrible damage to one another is as natural as watching pit bulls tear one another to pieces for sport.""

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""Scott Wolven's ""Barracuda"" defies expectations at virtually every turn, as willfully shapeless as life...cuts from scene to scene with the nervous energy of a hand-held camera. Equally memorable stories by Wolven have appeared in the last several volumes* of The Best American Mystery Series, each an exploration of violence among men who have been marginalized, and thus as dangerous as rogue elephants, in an economically ravaged society that places little value on traditional masculinity. For Wolven's men-loggers, tree poachers, corrupt cops-the impulse to do terrible damage to one another is as natural as watching pit bulls tear one another to pieces for sport."" -Joyce Carol Oates ""Tough, gritty, and honest-reminiscent of Hemingway with a little bit of John Steinbeck. Scott Wolven writes about an America that few of us have ever seen-and he writes about it from firsthand experience."" -Nelson Demille ""Wolven has turned raw, unreconciled life into startling, evocative, and very good short stories. He draws on a New England different from Updike's and even Dubus's, but his fictive lives-no less than theirs-render the world newly, and full of important consequence."" -Richard Ford ""Scott Wolven's tales are tough, unsentimental, and completely earned."" -George Pelecanos

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