Back To ListFlying a Red KiteByHugh HoodMichael GnarowskiPublished July 2017Paperback$ 26.99Paperback$ 26.99ePub$ 12.99 Add to CartShop LocalDescriptionA 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.Of Related InterestThe Kindred of the WildCharles G. D. RobertsIn Flanders Fields and Other PoemsJohn McCraeRinging the ChangesMazo de la RocheThe DeserterDouglas LePanReviews Hood’s thirty-year career demonstrates his profound and compassionate sensitivity to our human predicament.Canadian Book Review AnnualFlying A Red Kite is a subtle and generous book.Canadian LiteraturePreviousNextContributorsHugh HoodHugh 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.View Author Page Michael GnarowskiMichael Gnarowski has written for Encyclopedia Americana, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography, and the Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.View Author Page Book DetailsPaperbackJuly 20175.5x8.5 in264 pp9781459738553ePubJuly 2017-264 pp9781459738560ePubJuly 2017-264 pp9781459738577