Hugh Hood 
Flying a Red Kite 

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.

Mục lục

• 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

Giới thiệu về tác giả

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 Mc Graw-Hill Ryerson. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.