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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.
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.
Price: $26.99
Pages: 264
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Golden Dog Press
Series: Voyageur Classics
Publication Date:
25 July 2017
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459738553
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short stories, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction
Hood’s thirty-year career demonstrates his profound and compassionate sensitivity to our human predicament.
Flying A Red Kite is a subtle and generous book.
— Kildare Dobbs
Flying A Red Kite is a subtle and generous book.
— Kildare Dobbs
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.
- Introduction
- Hugh Hood: An Introductory Note by Michael Gnarowski
- Sober Colouring: The Ontology of Super-Realism by Hugh Hood
- Fallings from Us, Vanishings
- O Happy Melodist!
- Silver Bugles, Cymbals, Golden Silks
- Recollections of the Works Department
- Three Halves of a House
- After the Sirens
- He Just Adores Her!
- Nobody’s Going Anywhere!
- Flying a Red Kite
- Where the Myth Touches Us
- The End of It