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Ballistics, Paperback / softback Book

Ballistics Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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___________________Selected as one of The Waterstones Eleven, for the best fiction debuts of 2013, Ballistics is a tender, powerful and brilliantly written novel of fathers and sons, vengeance and forgiveness, by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award'A lean, powerful book about quiet, emotional people' Guardian'Bracing, even breathtaking' New StatesmanIt is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire.

Fleeing the fallout of a failed relationship, Alan West returns to his grandfather's home in the Kootenay Valley.

Cecil West, an old man confronted by his own mortality, asks Alan to track down his son, Alan's father, so that Cecil can make his peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for Jack West: a man who skipped town before Alan could walk.

His quest will lead him to Archer, an American soldier who long ago went AWOL across the border.

The young man and the old soldier set off on a reckless journey. What they find will change their lives forever.

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