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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 Statesman
It 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408833780
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 275 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
A lean, powerful book about quiet, emotional people - Guardian
Wilson’s prose is rich and nuanced - Sunday Telegraph
It’s Wilson’s voice that is outstanding, both raw and erudite - Vogue, Best Beach Reads
Bracing, even breathtaking - New Statesman
Flinty, hard-edged prose ... Wonderfully tense ... There’s no doubt that Wilson can write - Independent on Sunday
It certainly packs a manly punch - Daily Mail
Wilson’s debut novel ... Provides all the macho behaviour expected of its title – shooting, hunting and grunting abound – but this is softened by the philosophising of Alan and Archer - Sunday Times
“I knew a thing about ballistics, how even a nine millimetre handgun can produce over three hundred pounds of stopping power – about pressure waves in soft tissue and the theoretical risk of hydrostatic shock.”
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