Shot-Blue
by Jesse Ruddock
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Pub Date Apr 02 2017 | Archive Date May 08 2017
Description
‘Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel.’ – Rivka Galchen
Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north – remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to live alone, his youth unprotected and rough. The wild, open place that is all he knows will be overrun by strangers – strangers inhabiting the lodge that has replaced his home, strangers who make him fight, talk, and even love, when he doesn't want to. Ravenous and unrelenting, Shot-Blue is a book of first love and first loss.
Advance Praise
‘This poetically written book is full of riddles, of characters talking
past each other and misunderstanding one another in the vein of a
Shakespearean love tangle. Loneliness, the very human inability to
communicate with one another in a way that reveals our deepest selves,
is the point. The novel is a fine corrective to fiction that assumes
that people are rational actors and that motive is straightforward or
even discernible.’
– Publishers Weekly
A moving, lyrical novel. [...] A searing debut.’
– Kirkus Reviews‘
‘Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel.’
– Rivka Galchen
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781552453407 |
| PRICE | CA$23.99 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
