Overview

Hugh Hood has been called Canada’s foremost writer of short stories, and in this book, the first complete critical work on Hood’s short stories, Copoloff-Mechanic shows why he is the master craftsman of this genre. Hood has always insisted that his short-story collections should be treated as a unity — as if each story were a chapter of a novel. In this book, the author accepts Hood’s challenge, and shows how his six collections to date are carefully arranged in relation to a guiding theme. As Copoloff-Mechanic shows, the stories in each of the collections are carefully interconnected to illuminate the details of Canadian life in terms of a universal, timeless drama.

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9781550220018

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Pilgrim's Progress succeeds by pointing the reader in the right directions to travel towards a fuller understanding of Hood's short stories. -- Canadian Book Review Annual

This book is an interesting and informative analysis of the thematic structures of Hugh Hood's six short-story collections. -- Letters in Canada

Author Information

SUSAN COPOLOFF-MECHANIC lives in Montreal with her husband and daughter.

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