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  Ballistics (Salt Modern Fiction S.) (Paperback) By (author) Alex Keegan

  

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  Short Description for BallisticsCollects prize-winning stories that represent major high-points from the author's early years as a short-story writer. Providing a resource for teaching creative writing, this collection illustrates what is required to win writing competitions in the UK and overseas.
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  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9781844714773 ISBN 10: 1844714772
  • Sales rank: 1,161,199

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• This collection of prize-winning stories represent major high-points from Alex Keegan's early years as a short-story writer. These stories will stay with you, make you return and look behind the words, for what is quietly waiting. A father knowing he has little time left, takes his children to Disney; a writer sits and drinks tea with a bastard relation; a family tries to recover from a daughter's mutilation; a proud Welshman faces death to watch three grandsons at the game; and, a terrorist and his victim are trapped underground, talking in the dark. A too-beautiful young man tries to understand his life; an ageing teacher meets his protege and aches for what was missed; a band of limbless soldiers run a marathon for charity; a hopelessly unlucky cuckold has one more try; a barwoman is romanced over ten years; and, all these stories and more, some uplifting, some painful, all delivered with often brilliant touches of language, will enchant and educate. A superb resource for teaching creative writing, this collection illustrates exactly what is required to win writing competitions in the UK and overseas.