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Hood

Emma Donoghue

1995309 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Hamish Hamilton · 309 pages · ENGISBN 9780241134436
  • 1995HarperCollins · 309 pages · ENGISBN 9780060171100
  • 2013HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780062316813
  • 1998Alyson Publications · 309 pages · ENGISBN 9781555834531
  • 1996Penguin Books Ltd · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780140230840
  • 2011Harper Perennial · 336 pagesISBN 9780062117106

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. The New York 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 sustaining descriptive flashes of a born writer.” For readers of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Joyce Carol Oates’s The Widow’s Story, Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfully crafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’s imperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow and change.

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