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edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Fiction
published: Aug 2008
ISBN:9781897174319
publisher: Creative Book Publishing
imprint: Killick Press

Blasted

by Kate Story

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Blasted is a story of Ruby Jones, an irreverent, exuberant, and troubled woman who lurches between love affairs and cities. The narrative shifts between generations and geographies, between contemporary life and stories as old as the hill that looms over Ruby's birthplace. All the while, she is haunted by mysteries that surround her father and the generations before him. When Ruby unravels at last, she must face the demons that pursue her. Steeped in Newfoundland folklore, Blasted mines a rich vein of experience, layering the mundane and the magical, and evoking the forces that inhabit the land.

About the Author

Kate Story is a writer, dancer and actor. She is the author of five novels, including the YA Antilia series and Blasted, which received an honorable mention for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short stories have been included in numerous collections and journals; “runaway” was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2015, she received the Ontario Arts Foundation’s K.M. Hunter Award for her work in theater. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she now lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

Editorial Review

"...Story's stream of consciousness style of writing beautifully enhances the sense of temporal and special dislocation represented by movement through and slippage into fairy realms. Her poetic use of language adds to the depth of the landscape, it's history, and the people upon it, reveling in the simultaneous beauty and terror embedded in the land." Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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