You'll Catch Your Death Fiction Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

their pivotal flashes of clarity

or gut-wrenching anecdote to make it ‘poetry’

with his wholly original fusion of the vernacular and the classical

He knows exactly what he is about

You'll Catch Your Death Fiction Margaret AtwoodAnimals of all kinds, from a lovesick hippopotamus to a valuable pair of Chelsea dogs make an appearance in Hugh Hoods delightful new collection of short stories Youll Catch Your Death. But mostly one is aware of the birds. As the narrator in Hoods opening story observes, what I saw was birds and birds and again birds. Mosaic renderings of peacocks and cranes, a cage of cruelly imprisoned pigeons, a lorikeet named Ronnie Reagan, a couple of stolen