Ballistics
By: D.W. Wilson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780670065752
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Fiction; Fathers and sons; Families; Family secrets; Voyages and travels; Forest fires; Americans
Description: It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. As the forests blaze, Alan West heads into their shadows, returning from university to his grandfather's home in the remote Kootenay Valley, wherethe man who raised him has suffered a heart attack. Confronting his own mortality, the tough and taciturn Cecil West has a dying request for his grandson: track down the father Alan has never known so that the old man can make peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for the elusive Jack West, a man who skipped town before his son could walk and of whom his grandfather has always refused to speak. His quest will lead him to Archer, an old American soldier who decades ago went AWOL across the border into Canada. Archer has been carrying a heavy burden for many years, and through him Alan learns the stories of two broken families who came together, got too close, and then fell apart in tragic ways.
Notes: "First edition published in 2013"--Title page verso.