New Athens
By (Author) Hugh Hood
ECW Press,Canada
ECW Press,Canada
1st June 1984
Canada
General
Fiction
Paperback
226
In the second volume of The New Age, Matt Goderich is studying art history at the University of Toronto. His research leads him to the mythical town of Stoverville, where he meets his future wife and her mother, a visionary painter.
"The sensibility, the fine intelligence poking and probing into the life of homo canadensis during the 1950s is so acute, so accurate that I feel as if I and the people I know had all been minutely examined." --"Quill & Quire"
Hugh Hood is one of Canada's foremost novelists and essaysists. He is the author of Black and White Keys, Reservoir Ravine, and Trusting the Tale.