Description
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
About the Author
D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. He is the recipient of the University of East Anglia's inaugural Man Booker Prize Scholarship - the most prestigious award available to students in the MA programme. His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and 'The Dead Roads' won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He lives in Cambridge. Once You Break a Knuckle, his debut story collection, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Reviews
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 *
Awards
Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2014.
Book Information
ISBN 9781408833780
Author D. W. Wilson
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 275g