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Searching for Terry Punchout

by Tyler Hellard

Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot--a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout--who also happens to be Adam's estranged father. Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends, revisiting neglected relationships, and dealing with lingering feelings about his father and dead mother--and discovering that his friends and family are kinder and more complicated than he ever gave them credit for.

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Publisher: Invisible Publishing

Date: 2018

ISBN: 9781988784106

Location: Pennington, Nova Scotia (Fictional)

Sub-genres: Literary , Sports

About The Author

Tyler Hellard is a Canadian writer whose debut novel Searching for Terry Punchout was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in 2019.

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