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Hood - Emma Donoghue
Hood
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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 toterms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing. The NewYork Times Book Review calls Hood “utterly charming,” writing that,“Ms. Donoghue displays her... show more
From the New York Times bestselling author of Room,Emma Donoghue, Hood is a graceful tale of a young woman who must come toterms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing. The NewYork Times Book Review calls Hood “utterly charming,” writing that,“Ms. Donoghue displays her confidence by avoiding the grandiose and the showy,and dipping into the ordinary with control and the occasional sustainingdescriptive flashes of a born writer.” For readers of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and JoyceCarol Oates’s The Widow’s Story, Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfullycrafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’simperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow andchange.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780062117106 (0062117106)
ASIN: 62117106
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
3.0 Hood
"I had never noticed before that the official title of the ‘Lord have mercy’ prayer was the gracious phrase ‘Invitation to Sorrow’. Hey there, Sorrow, how’ve you been keeping? Come on in. If your bike doesn’t have lights you can always crash on our sofa tonight. Oh, so you’ll be staying a while, Sor...
DubaiReader
DubaiReader rated it
1.0 Audiobook returned to Audible.
It is very rare that I abandon a book, even more unlikely if it's an audio-book. However, this book, written many years before Emma Donoghue's fantastic book, Room, did not live up to expectations at all. I was listening to it on a long haul flight and I found I was just not engaging with the charac...
melissawritergrrlreads
melissawritergrrlreads rated it
3.0 Hood
Read for a course on Irish Women with Christine St. Peter.
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