Body, Mind & Health - Fiction, Phases of Life - Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction
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Overview
Near Water is the final volume in Hugh Hood's spectacular New Age series, an epic saga that is already treasured and revered as a meticulous chronicle of late 20th- and early 21st-century Canada. Son of a Nobel laureate, father of a space voyager, friend of a movie star, estranged husband of a painter, and semi-famous because of it all, Matthew Goderich is driving up to the lake for a possible reunion with Edie, from whom he has been separated for 30 years. Then it happens, and we feel it happening too-the pain, the delusions, the awful, sudden, interior crisis of a cerebrovascular accident. A stroke. And we stay with him, this self-proclaimed "hope man" who is never alone, while his mind roves over the vivid details of the life he has loved at this place near water.
About the Author:
Hugh Hood taught English literature at the Université de Montréal and was the author of 17 novels, several volumes of short fiction, and five works of nonfiction. He died in August 2000.
Book Details
Published
March 1, 2001
Publisher
Toronto : Anansi, 2000.
Pages
350
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780887841729