Light Shining Out of Darkness: And Other Stories

by Hugh Hood

Book Overview

Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood's short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood's super-realist style doesn't just see--it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation as an originator of Canadian modernism, Hood's work taken as a whole reveals a philosophy far older: that of the allegorist. Like Dante's pilgrim, Hood's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771961880
• ISBN13: 9781771961882
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher