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You Haven't Changed a Bit & Other Stories

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Description for You Haven't Changed a Bit & Other Stories Paperback. Full-fledged characters positively crackle in the deliciously realistic situations of these thirteen short stories. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252.
Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters in the throes of realistic moments. From the fascinatingly unhinged hero of "Getting the Cat," to the dreamy survey of prairie landscape and childhood experience of "New Summer Dresses," to the fatal irony of "Ice Break," readers will be hooked from first sentences and carried along on crisp prose. You Haven't Changed a Bit shimmers with the energy of a first book while affording readers the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888646446
SKU
V9780888646446
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About Astrid Blodgett
Astrid Blodgett is a short story writer from Edmonton / amiskwaciwâskahikan. Her work has appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology, Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts, and many Canadian literary magazines. She was short-listed for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, and her first collection, You Haven’t Changed a Bit, ... Read more

Reviews for You Haven't Changed a Bit & Other Stories
Astrid Blodgett was announced as one of the 12 contributors to The Journey Prize Stories 24. Congratulations! http://www.facebook.com/TheJourneyPrize/posts/10151067884019227 "You Haven't Changed a Bit, a compilation of 13 stories, took 10 years to complete. For the Literary Cocktails reading, Blodgett has picked Ice Break, a story about a family that goes ice fishing on Lake Wabamun. They never start fishing because ... Read more

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