Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Canadian First. Complete number line from 1 to 4; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean, read only once copy in collectible condition. Book.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill., Erin, Ontario, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Pre-publication chapbook in stapled paper covers. 14 pp. Fine.
Publicado por Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, ON, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Original printed wraps. 160 pp. Octavo. After All! contains the last of Hugh Hood's short stories, seventeen in all, written between September 1991 and December 1994. It was his practice to intersperse publication of short stories, essays, or other materials between the appearance of the individual novels in his ambitious series The New Age / Le nouveau siècle, which appeared at two- or three-year ine tervals between 1975 and 2000. This collection should have been published in 1996 or 1998, but because of failing health in the later 1990s, he devoted all his energies to the completion of the New Age series, and thus never got around to presenting the typescript to a publisher. (Hood died, sadly, a few weeks before the publication of the final volume of the New Age series.) The stories in this collection, however, are not only complete in themselves but complete as a collection. They are presented in the order in which they were written, which was the order in which he wanted them to appear. Like his earlier collections (from Flying a Red Kite, 1987, onwards), these stories encompass a remarkable variety of tones. They include humorous stories of everyday life, fantasies, problem stories, satires on the excesses of modern civilization, documentary sketches, stories that amuse, stories that entertain, stories that set one thinking, stories that disturb. All are written with the stylistic elegance, and filled with the inquiring intelligence, that we have come to expect from Hood. Though written in the last decade of his life, they show him at the top of his form. Here we experience the flowering of one of the most skillful and probing Canadian practitioners of the short story as a subtle and concentrated literary form. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: new.
Publicado por Porcupine's Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 2003, Trade paperback, First Edition, appears to be a review copy, press release and book marker laid in and which are in fine condition. Book Condition: slight curl to front top/bottom cover, ding to back effects page 137 to 155 and the back cover - see photos - otherwise the book appears unread and, without the issues would be fine.as it is, listed as very good with the extras as fine.scarce with the extras.
Publicado por Porcupines Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 160 pages. 8.74x5.64x0.51 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Porcupine*s Quill, 2003
ISBN 10: 0889842582 ISBN 13: 9780889842588
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
paperback. Condición: New. New. book.