After All Format:Paperback and restored to the human

and restored to the human spirit of delight

Truth is subjective

work against our best interests and prevent the candid and occasionally brutal assessments without which the critical stupor and aesthetic fog so congenial to us must remain destructively in place

East European immigrants to Toronto in the early fifties dreamed of the good life in the suburbs

when they simply seemed a lifetime

After All Format:Paperback and restored to the humanAfter All! contains the last of Hugh Hoods short stories, seventeen in all, written between September 1991 and December 1994. It was his practice to intersperse publication of short stories, essays, or other materials between the appearance of the individual novels in his ambitious series The New Age Le nouveau si; cle, which appeared at two or three year intervals between 1975 and 2000. This collection should have been published in 1996 or 1998, but