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.
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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. Its characters are at once too lonely, and insufficiently alone; their landscape feels both tender and indifferent, god-haunted and abandoned. This is a truly exceptional and compelling work, and in that way, its own variety of joy.’
Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances
Jesse Ruddock understands the weight of things that cannot be said aloud. A sensitive book about lives lived at the edge of society, in the shadow of an idyllic panorama, given voice only in the silence of adolescence.’
Jenny Erpenbeck, author of The End of Days
Stunning and just so gracefully told. Ruddock’s landscape and characters are told by heart and her fierce and beautiful language makes you feel it.’
Naja Marie Aidt, author of Rock, Paper, Scissors
The author is talented, with a penchant for paradox and a yen for examining the backward logic that guides our daily anxieties.’
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel. Rivka GalchenRachel 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. Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel. Rivka Galchen Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781552453407
Book Description Condition: New. Über den AutorrnrnJesse Ruddock is author of the novel Shot-Blue. Born and raised in Guelph and based in Montreal, Jesse attended Harvard on a hockey scholarship, playing starting goal. After a series of concussions, she turn. Seller Inventory # 904297881