You'll Catch Your Death Fiction PRISM International

PRISM International

while images of the collapsing towers haunted the media

He knows exactly what he is about

with his wholly original fusion of the vernacular and the classical

and the deeply affecting effects of an intense entanglement of a ‘one’ with an ‘other’

You'll Catch Your Death Fiction PRISM InternationalAnimals 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