Shot-Blue
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
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.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Jesse Ruddock. (2017). Shot-Blue. Coach House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jesse Ruddock. 2017. Shot-Blue. Coach House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jesse Ruddock, Shot-Blue. Coach House Books, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jesse Ruddock. Shot-Blue. Coach House Books, 2017.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Shot-Blue
- crossRefId
- 3134610
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2968-1/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2968-1/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2968-1/BBD/B5E/F8/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2968-1/BBD/B5E/F8/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781770564749
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01N4W2IOB
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781770564749
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Jesse Ruddock
- id
- bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3
- title
- Shot-Blue
- starRating
- 2.3
- dateAdded
- 2017-04-07T14:04:00-04:00
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3134610
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2968-1/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2968-1/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2968-1/BBD/B5E/F8/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2968-1/BBD/B5E/F8/{BBDB5EF8-F04B-41A9-B0AE-F83DF982DEC3}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- formats
- fileName: ShotBlue_9781770564749_3134610
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1131733
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781770564749
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 2/20/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: ShotBlue_9781770564756_3134610
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781770564756
- type: ASIN
- value: B01N4W2IOB
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 2/20/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: ShotBlue_9781770564749_3134610
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1131949
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781770564749
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 2/20/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Ruddock, Jesse
- bioText:
Born in Guelph, Jesse Ruddock first left Canada on a hockey scholarship to Harvard. Her writing and photographs have appeared in the NewYorker.com, BOMB Magazine, Music & Literature, and Vice. Shot-Blue is her first novel. She currently lives in Montreal.
- name: Jesse Ruddock
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: McPherson, Andrew
- name: Andrew McPherson
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- publishDate
- 2017-02-20T00:00:00-05:00
- publishDateText
- 02/20/2017
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781552453407
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
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.
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Shot-Blue
- fullDescription
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.
- sortTitle
- ShotBlue
- crossRefId
- 3134610
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Rivka Galchen
- content:
'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.'
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
January 2, 2017
Ruddock’s complex debut novel set in Canada’s north is a story of a tough but character-forming hardscrabble life and of the deep bonds and rivalries created among people who live together far away from urban civilization. In the first section, Rachel and her teenage son, Tristan, live out in the wilderness, determined to survive without help from anyone else. When Rachel doesn’t come home one day, Tristan continues to live alone for a time. In the second section, the land has been sold and Tristan has ended up back at his former home, now turned into a holiday lodge. He lives among strangers and works as a backwoods guide. He becomes closest to Tomasin, who also works there, and the relationship between them is tender, tragic, and perplexing. 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.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
January 1, 2017
Poverty, youth, and longing collide on an isolated Canadian island in Ruddock's searing debut novel.Rachel and her 11-year-old son, Tristan, are alone in Canada's rugged north, working odd jobs when they can but most often isolating themselves on a small, wild island where Rachel's father kept a hunting cabin. Trying to provide for her son, Rachel begins sleeping with local boatman Keb in exchange for money. After winter drives them to a town on a neighboring island, Rachel wanders too far from their small cabin and perishes in the cold, only being found when the ice on which she died thaws and she is washed to shore. This leaves Tristan alone in a harsh world that doesn't show much compassion to the boy beyond getting him a job at a resort being built on the island he and his mother once called home. There, Tristan becomes just another nameless worker, all the while harboring a sense of loss for the place that was once his refuge. When a young girl named Tomasin arrives for the summer, she picks Tristan out and develops a crush that pushes both of them beyond their emotional limits. In haunting prose, the author has created a moving and tense look at what becomes of children when they aren't or can't be cared for and must fend for themselves. It explores the depths of human emotion and the limits we struggle to overcome. A moving, lyrical novel that explores the emotional pain of hardship on children.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- popularity
- 42
- publisher
- Coach House Books
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- bbdb5ef8-f04b-41a9-b0ae-f83df982dec3
- starRating
- 2.5
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
