Flying a Red Kite - (Voyageur Classics) by Hugh Hood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Canadian author Hugh Hood's first collection of short stories.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood's debut story collection.</b><br/><br/> It all started toward the end of the 1930s, when the young Hugh Hood serviced a flourishing <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> 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.<br/><br/> 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, <i>Flying a Red Kite</i> 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." <i>Flying a Red Kite</i> is an essential window into the work of a major and unique Canadian talent.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Flying A Red Kite</i> is a subtle and generous book.--Kildare Dobbs "Canadian Literature"<br><br>Hood's thirty-year career demonstrates his profound and compassionate sensitivity to our human predicament.-- "Canadian Book Review Annual"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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.
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