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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dundurn Group LTD
ISBN-13
9781459738553
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238498790
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flying a Red Kite
Author
Hugh Hood
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Short Stories, Books
Publication Year
2017
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
291g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Hugh Hood
Series Title
Voyageur Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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