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Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hoods the New Age/Le Nouveau Siecle
 List Price: Price: $13.09 You Save: $16.86 (56%) DescriptionPublished between 1975 and 2000 and completed shortly before his death, Hugh Hood's twelve-volume novel-series The New Age/Le nouveau siecle represents a major achievement in Canadian fiction. Hood takes us on a remarkable, though challenging, journey in time and space while chronicling the life of his intellectually inquisitive protagonist, Matt Goderich. Moving from history and politics to literature and the arts, from popular song to the vagaries of fashion, from urban stress to the relaxations of cottage-country, these novels explore the texture of Canadian life with a depth and comprehensiveness that, when fully grasped, are dazzling. In Canadian Odyssey W.J. Keith steers general readers and specialist students alike through the complexities of Hood's scheme. He presents biographical information about the planning and writing of the series, places it among other examples of "Roman-Fleuve," offers background concerning Hood's literary influences, and provides novel-by-novel discussions of each book. Written in a straightforward style, avoiding jargon and the excesses of literary theory, Canadian Odyssey makes a convincing case for The New Age as a great Canadian masterpiece.
Around the mountain : Scenes from Montreal Life
 List Price: Price: $12.95 DescriptionThe republication of a book which is among the finest that Hugh Hood, one of Canada's most sophisticated and accomplished authors, has ever written. Around the Mountain: Scenes from Montréal Life is, in the words of John Metcalf, `an almost perfect achievement.' Around the Mountain is a documentary/fantasy portrait of Montréal, its people, politics, folkways, geography and appearance as they were in the heady days of Expo 67. These twelve short narratives form a cyclical, encyclopaedic account of a dozen quarters of the city that literally circle around the peak of the low hill that Montréalers call `the mountain'. As Hood recalls in the new introduction to the book: `I wanted to give a kind of fossil-like existence to something that was in the process of being born and simultaneously passing away. It is fascinating to me to go through these twelve stories to judge what has remained in place and what has been swept away and forgotten. Every reader who knows Montréal will have an opinion about this. But some things have remained unmistakably in place.' Around the Mountain is populated with people and their stories, from the misadventures of a convivial defenceman called Fred Carpenter, to the angelic messenger, Angela Mary Robinson, whose bicultural message of love and understanding nobody understands, to Victor LaTourelle who is haunted, as so many of us in the late twentieth century are haunted, by the past.
Property and Value (New Age)
 List Price: Price: $24.95 DescriptionThe eighth novel in the New Age series, Property and Value is a further installment in the lives of the Goderich family of Toronto and a reflection on currency— it's price, worth, intrinsic value, and goodness in relation to time.
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Gresham OutlookMt. Hood sets stage for summerWorking against them are Hugh “Bullshot” Crummond and Rosemary Fenton, the professor's daughter. The characters are highly stereotypical: Otto, a German super villain; Lenya, a femme fatale; Fenton, an absent-minded professor; Rosemary,
guardian.co.ukHood is still cutting his teethThis movie's chief struggle is supposed to be internal — between Wolverine's animal nature and his desire to be like everyone else. And although Hood tries hard to convey this via repeated close-ups of Hugh Jackman scowling, the film never quite cuts 'Wolverine' lacks depth, but has action REVIEW: 'Wolverine' isn't a cut above 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' -
San Diego Union TribuneCity art museum is losing directorBefore coming to San Diego, Cartwright directed the Musee d'Art Américain Giverny in France (1998-2000) and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (2001-04). At the SDMA, as at these institutions, Cartwright has put an emphasis on