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Hood

by Emma Donoghue


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Pen and Cara meet in a convent school and become friends and then lovers, in a romance that is far from simple. Years later, when Cara dies in an accident, Pen looks back over their 14-year relationship, attempting to make sense of their lives together.


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9781555834531 9781555834531, Paperback, Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 1998

$8.49 (Good+)

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9780060171100 9780060171100, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 1996

$5.71 (Used - Very Good)

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Publisher Notes

As a teenager in the late '70s, Pen O'Grady fell in love with Cara Wall. Although Cara was always engaged in unrequited love for other people, their unconventional relationship survived until their late twenties, when Cara died in a car accident. Pen's narration covers the week of the funeral and fourteen years of baffling memories. A bittersweet, sexy tale about romance and loss.

Media Reviews

"...an elegiac reconstruction of a long love affair and a fascinating portrait of lesbian society in modern Ireland...Donoghue does a deft job of catching [the narrator's] wry intelligence and intense romanticism, the deep certainty she has in her identity...Her unsparing record of a difficult, intense, vital affair, and her meditations on the nature of desire, are exact and profoundly moving."

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