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From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue, Hood is a graceful tale of a young woman who must come to terms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial, Hamish Hamilton, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781555834531
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“Mayday in 1980, heat sealing my fingers together.”
Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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