The Isolation Booth: 3 - Softcover

Hood, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889841195 ISBN 13: 9780889841192

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, 1991

Synopsis

A third volume in Hugh Hood's Collected Stories. It contains short fiction written between 1957 and 1966.

About this title

Review

'Hood writes that this volume is the result of his unending struggle with the short-story form. It is exciting to watch him triumph in that struggle, as he accurately paints such diverse portraits as those of a crass game-show host; a stuffy self-deceptive businessman; a shockingly insensitive divorce and a distinguished teacher of metaphysics and phenomenology.' Canadian Book Review Annual 'Storytelling is not only a gift, but a craft that evolves during the course of a writer's life. The Isolation Booth, Hugh Hood's collection of stories never published in book form before, is an interesting example of such an evolution.' Kingston Whig-Standard 'Hood at his best has created visions as strong as this. Long after his stories and his characters have drained from my memory I can recall certain intensely realized mystical images -- the ghost ship under the lake, the return to life of a human being frozen to the point of death in some horrible concentration-camp "medical" experiment, and above all that red kite of his, fluttering triumphantly over a fallen world.' Essays on Canadian Writing

Synopsis

"The Isolation Booth" is the third volume in Hugh Hood's "Collected Stories"; it contains short fiction written between 1957 and 1966. While all of the stories have been previously published in various magazines, this is the first time they are available in book form. The title story was first published in "The Tamarack Review" in 1958; the paid to Hood for that story represents the first income he ever made from his writing. Since then, Hugh Hood has become 'one of Canada's most prolific short-story writers and novelists.' (William French, "The Globe & Mail") He has authored more than twenty books, including novels, short-story collections and essays. The Porcupine's Quill has previously published "Flying a Red Kite" and "A Short Walk in the Rain" as part of our continuing series of Hood's "Collected Stories."

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889841195
• ISBN 13: 9780889841192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260