Once

by Rosenblum, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781897231494
• ISBN10: 1897231490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Biblioasis

Summary

Rebecca Rosenblum's stories are urban with a strong contemporary feel. The stories record incidents in the lives of twenty-somethings -- students, techies in an office building, a girl toiling in the warehouse of a wholesale fruit and vegetable distrubutor, a boy who hustles for drug money, waitresses. These are constricted and often random lives and Rebecca Rosenblum's vision mercilessly portrays their shapelessness. Here you will find no epiphanies, no moral simplifications, nary a single wispy apercu. These stories with their brilliant and innovative handling of dialogue break the Canadian mould. With her first book Rebecca Rosenblum has achieved what writers long for, a voice and style uniquely hers and experiences that engage and grip readers.

Author Biography

 Rebecca Rosenblum just graduated from the English and Creative Writing Master's program at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in Exile Quarterly, The Danforth Review, echolocation, The New Quarterly, Qwerty, Ars Medica, and Journey Prize Stories 19. Once, her first book, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award for fiction. Rebecca lives and writes in Toronto, Ontario.

Table of Contents

ContEd	p. 9
Chilly Girl	p. 25
Route 99	p. 31
Fruit Factory	p. 43
Linh Lai	p. 57
The House on Elsbeth	p. 69
The Words	p. 77
Wall of Sound	p. 91
Kids These Days	p. 109
Tech Support	p. 119
Solidarity/Who is Christine?	p. 133
Zoom	p. 145
Blood Ties	p. 153
Cal is Helpful	p. 163
Steal Me	p. 179
Massacre Day	p. 191
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