Full 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.
Contents
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
