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Hood by Emma Donoghue (1998, Paperback, Reprint) 
Hood by Emma Donoghue (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Hood by Emma Donoghue (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Alyson Pubns
Publication Date: 1998-07-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1555834531
ISBN-13: 9781555834531
Product ID: EPID20506
Description: Pen and Cara meet in a convent school and become friends and then lovers, in a romance that is far from simple. Years later, when Cara dies in an accident, Pen looks back over their 14-year relationship, attempting to make sense of their...
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Synopsis
Pen and Cara meet in a convent school and become friends and then lovers, in a romance that is far from simple. Years later, when Cara dies in an accident, Pen looks back over their 14-year relationship, attempting to make sense of their lives together.

Details
Publication Date:1998-07-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:309 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
As a teenager in the late '70s, Pen O'Grady fell in love with Cara Wall. Although Cara was always engaged in unrequited love for other people, their unconventional relationship survived until their late twenties, when Cara died in a car accident. Pen's narration covers the week of the funeral and fourteen years of baffling memories. A bittersweet, sexy tale about romance and loss.

Industry Reviews
"Professing lesbianism...is not the purpose of 'Hood', which is essentially a tender love story about a newly bereaved partner looking back at the gathering moments of intimacy over the 13 years of knowing her lover. The charm of the book--and it is utterly charming--lies in its lack of political aggression, in its insouciant avoidance of the bandwagon....The achievement of 'Hood' may lie in its very ordinariness. It states indirectly that love, homosexual or heterosexual, is simply love."
New York Times Book Review - Catherine Lockerbie (03/23/1996)

"...an elegiac reconstruction of a long love affair and a fascinating portrait of lesbian society in modern Ireland...Donoghue does a deft job of catching [the narrator's] wry intelligence and intense romanticism, the deep certainty she has in her identity...Her unsparing record of a difficult, intense, vital affair, and her meditations on the nature of desire, are exact and profoundly moving."
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