> Uh, what happened at the end of _Jack's Return Home_?
Did the shotgun
> blow up in Eric's face? I can't see this happening
unless the end of the
> barrel was below the surface of the water, which it
wasn't, judging from
> Lewis's description.
Not certain, but when I read this part of the novel,
something clicked
(pun not intended).
Earlier in the novel there's mention of an engineering
company and as the
gun wasn't used otherwise I assumed that he had the gun fixed
in some way,
also the way in which that passage was written led me to see
it as a trap,
because although a thug, Carter is meant to be a sympathetic
character and
such an ending to the baddie would not mean making Carter a
psychotic
which in real life he would have been. Especially to a
British reader.
David
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