Hood, Mary

Familiar heat by Mary Hood ( Book )
8 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 675 libraries worldwide
The protagonist is a woman married to a Cuban exile in Florida who is running a fishing business. Taken hostage during a bank robbery, she is raped, for which her macho husband leaves her. She falls back on an old boy friend, they have a car accident, he dies, she loses her memory. Will it never end? It does and she finds true love.

How far she went : stories by Mary Hood ( Book )
7 editions published between 1984 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 613 libraries worldwide
<DIV>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." </DIV>

And Venus is blue : stories by Mary Hood ( Book )
6 editions published between 1986 and 2001 in English and held by 501 libraries worldwide
Although Hood is considered a "Southern" writer, her sensibilities are universal. In this impressive collection of short fiction, she uses simple phrases to capture a character perfectly; at the same time, she knows when to unleash her controlled prose, freeing it for poetic evocations of landscapes or moments. Above all, she tells good stories. "After Moore" traces the dissolution of a marriage as told to a marriage counselor by all the family members. Hood manages to be both funny and perceptive as she adopts the voice of each character in turn. The title piece is an ambitious novella in which Hood's experiments with time do not quite work, but she deftly renders a family's complex relationships and at the same time creates the ambience of a mill-town community. Hood, who won the 1984 Flannery O'Connor Award for her first book of stories, How Far She Went, is a talented writer with a distinctive, memorable voice.

Home-schooling resource guide & directory of organizations by Mary Hood ( Book )
3 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 71 libraries worldwide

And Venus is blue by Mary Hood ( Book )
2 editions published between 1987 and 1990 in French and English and held by 32 libraries worldwide

The enthusiastic home schooler by Mary Hood ( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide

Bleu comme Vénus : nouvelles by Mary Hood ( Book )
1 edition published in 1990 in French and held by 8 libraries worldwide

Countdown to consistency : understanding and clarifying your educational philosophy : a workbook for home educators by Mary Hood ( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

How far she went by Mary Hood ( Book )
1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

The compassionate friend by Mary Hood ( Book )
2 editions published between 1945 and 1946 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide