Hood
HOOD (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995, Penguin paperback ISBN 0-14-023084-X [out of print]) (New York: HarperCollins, 1996; Alyson paperback ISBN 1-55583-453-1 [out of print]) Winner of the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. HOOD is a novel about bereavement and the closet, which follows Pen, a Dublin schoolteacher, through the first week after the death of her on-off lover of thirteen years, Cara.
Translations:
VERLIES (Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas, 1996),ISBN 90-254-0526-6
FORLUST (Stockholm: Norstedts, 1998), ISBN 91-1-300321-6
KISUI (Tel Aviv: Alternativot, 2002)
CARA ET MOI (Marsan, France: Editions Dans L’Engrenage, 2008), ISBN 978-291-5342-18-5
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http://danslengrenage.perso.neuf.fr/Cara%20et%20moi.html
'Hood is thoroughly contemporary in how richly it depicts a beloved's death to review a couple's bumpy love history...This book's real pleasures lie in its intimate insights, its accurate characters and its sharp, rich observations... the greatest achievement of HOOD is how it captures the domesticity of erotic passion' – BOSTON GLOBE
'Donoghue negotiates this territory deftly and with rather startling humour... It is Pen's winning sanity and avid eye for absurdity - in the Church and in the bedroom - that keeps this confident, touching novel afloat.' – INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Utterly charming.' – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW