Diana
A Diary in the Second Person
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Biblioasis
Published:20th Mar '08
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In the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), Smith's pornographic novel explores female desire. The unnamed narrator -- gorgeous, sophisticated, bored, underemployed -- embarks on a series of intense urban encounters in an unnamed city. Her desire is limitless: passionate, playful, intense, humorous. Diana is a literary experiment to arouse and to paint a sexual portrait of a city.
"Russell Smith is not Canada's greatest writer. A formidable cohort of older authors, preeminently Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant, will have to retire from competition before Smith has a shot at that title. But for more than a decade he has been, for me at least, Canada's most fascinating writer, the author whose new books and stories I most eagerly anticipate, whose fiction I approach with a hopeful curiosity grounded in the fact that his early novels gave me a great deal of pleasure and each new volume, whether successful or not, shows a strenuous effort to expand his literary range."—Jeet Heer, Canadian Notes and Queries "It's unrelentingly smutty, but it's also a valuable reflection on sexuality in our lives and the importance we place on it, and what we can gain from being comfortable in our own skin."—Nom De Plume Press
ISBN: 9781897231395
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 198g
128 pages