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The Cloaca
By Andrew Hood
The stories included in Andrew Hood’s sophomore collection are beautiful, gross, funny, and personal. The Cloaca is a train wreck of awesomeness. It’s your high school gym coach, drunk and dishing dirt on all the other teachers on the crosstown bus-a stomach-turning spectacle ... Read more
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The stories included in Andrew Hood’s sophomore collection are beautiful, gross, funny, and personal. The Cloaca is a train wreck of awesomeness. It’s your high school gym coach, drunk and dishing dirt on all the other teachers on the crosstown bus-a stomach-turning spectacle that’ll make you laugh out loud now, feel bad later. You won’t be able to look away for an instant.
Andrew Hood
Maisonneuve Magazine called Andrew Hood one of Canada's most criminally undervalued writers." Both his works of fiction, The Cloaca (Invisible Publishing) and Pardon Our Monsters (Vehicule), received wide praise, winning him multiple accolades, including the Danuta Gleed Award. Hood lives in Guelph, Ontario."
Reviews
This collection of insightful, observant human dramas reveals both the humour and brutality of modern day life. It is also perfectly typeset to be read easily and is overall a handsome volume. I couldn’t put it down. - Expozine Alternative Press Award jury citation
“Andrew Hood illuminates the concerns of his generation with fearless clarity. ” — Winnipeg Review
“Hood is joining the ranks of such satirists as Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, whose view of human culture and behaviour always acknowledged the underside of waste and excrement. ” — National Post
“Hood’s prose is workmanlike but effective; there are no pyrotechnics here, just good stories, well told. ” — Quill & Quire
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- Dimensions 208 pages, 5.0 x 8.0 x 0.5 in
- Published April 15, 2012
- Publisher Invisible Publishing
- Category Fiction
- Keywords Short Stories (single Author) , Literary , Urban Life
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