And Venus Is Blue: Stories - Hardcover

Hood, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899194311 ISBN 13: 9780899194318

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1986

Synopsis

A collection of short stories expresses the conflicts that ensue as homesteads and country stores give way to housing developments and shopping malls in today's South

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Hood is the author of "Familiar Heat," "And Venus is Blue," and "How Far She Went" (Georgia), a winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has been published in the "Georgia Review," "North American Review," and "Yankee," among other publications.

From Publishers Weekly:

Although Hood is considered a "Southern" writer, her sensibilities are universal. In this impressive collection of short fiction, she uses simple phrases to capture a character perfectly; at the same time, she knows when to unleash her controlled prose, freeing it for poetic evocations of landscapes or moments. Above all, she tells good stories. "After Moore" traces the dissolution of a marriage as told to a marriage counselor by all the family members. Hood manages to be both funny and perceptive as she adopts the voice of each character in turn. The title piece is an ambitious novella in which Hood's experiments with time do not quite work, but she deftly renders a family's complex relationships and at the same time creates the ambience of a mill-town community. Hood, who won the 1984 Flannery O'Connor Award for her first book of stories, How Far She Went, is a talented writer with a distinctive, memorable voice.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0899194311
• ISBN 13: 9780899194318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293