| Flying a Red Kite Contributor(s): Hood, Hugh (Author), Gnarowski, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1459738551 ISBN-13: 9781459738553 Publisher: Golden Dog Press OUR PRICE: $24.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Series: Voyageur Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood's debut story collection. It all started toward the end of the 1930s, when the young Hugh Hood serviced a flourishing Saturday Evening Post delivery route with more than fifty weekly customers. That was where the author-to-be first encountered the short story, in the fiction of the famous magazine writers Damon Runyon, Guy Gilpatric, Arthur Train, and the master of them all, P.G. Wodehouse. Hood would go on to write several novels and short story collections. Perhaps more importantly, he would be a founding member of the now-legendary Montreal Story Tellers group. Reissued here on its 55th anniversary, Hood's first collection of short fiction, Flying a Red Kite contains some of his most well-known short fiction, from the post-apocalyptic visions of "After the Sirens" to the Faulknerian portrait of rural Ontario in "Three Halves of a House." Flying a Red Kite is an essential window into the work of a major and unique Canadian talent. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gnarowski, Michael: - Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views on Canadian Writers series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa. Hood, Hugh: -Hugh Hood was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor. He wrote thirty-two books, including seventeen novels and several volumes of short fiction. In 1988, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. |