How Far She Went
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How Far She Went by Mary Hood
Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing—sometimes worse—lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service. In "A Country Girl," for example, she creates an idyllic valley where a barefoot girl sings melodies "low and private as a lullaby" and where "you could pick up one of the little early apples from the ground and eat it right then without worrying about pesticide." But something changes this summer afternoon with the arrival at a family reunion of fair and fiery Johnny Calhoun: "everybody's kind and nobody's kin," forty in a year or so, "and wild in the way that made him worth the trouble he caused." The title story in the collection begins with a visit to clean the graves in a country cemetery and ends with the terrifying pursuit of a young girl and her grandmother by two bikers, one of whom "had the invading sort of eyes the woman had spent her lifetime bolting doors against." In the story "Inexorable Process" we see the relentless desperation of Angelina, "who hated many things, but Sundays most of all," and in "Solomon's Seal" the ancient anger of the mountain woman who has crowded her husband out of her life and her heart, until the plants she has tended in her rage fill the half-acre. "The madder she got, the greener everything grew."
Hood, Mary A.: - Professor emerita of microbiology at the University of West Florida, Mary A. Hood grew up in a small town near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Besides publishing over sixty scientific/technical articles in the field of microbial ecology and articles on conservation and the environment, she is the author of three collections of poetry and three nature/travel essay collections, including The Strangler Fig and Other Tales: Field Notes of a Conservationist (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and RiverTime: Ecotravels on the World's Rivers (State University of New York Press, 2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820314419 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820314412 |
| Title | How Far She Went |
| Author | Mary Hood |
| Series | Flannery O'connor Award For Short Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 1992-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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