You Haven't Changed a Bit: Stories

by Astrid Blodgett

Overview

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 subtlety, complexity, and range of an accomplished master of the genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888647122
Publisher:	University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	08/25/2013
Series:	Robert Kroetsch Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	430 KB

About the Author

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, was long-listed for a ReLit Award, a runner up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for Short Stories.

Table of Contents

1 Don’t Do a Headstand 19 Zero Recall 27 Ice Break 39 Getting the Cat 55 Let’s Go Straight to the Lake 75 In the Meadow 89 Tattletale 103 New Summer Dresses 115 The Gold One 131 Giving Blood 139 Butterflies 153 No Matter How Nicey-Nicey the Parents Were 163 Banana and Split 173 Acknowledgements