Dead White Males [Paperback]

Ann Diamond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

Who is Vera A. Utall? Why has she entwined celebrity Nick Maggot and legendary literary genius Orville Goner in her sexual web? Soft-boiled private eye (and hairdresser) David Dennings is hired to track the vanished siren. Through a hallucinatory labyrinth only Ann Diamond could have created,the trail leads him to the nefarious Dead White Males.

Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick meet Virginia Woolf in this unconventional whodunit in which Dennings’ very life depends on finding the solution that lies buried within an elusive master’s thesis. Will he make it before the hourglass runs out?

Editorial Reviews

Review

...Diamond’s women seem to use their involvement with brutish, insensitive men as acts of defiance.... -- Mary Frances Hill, Books in Canada

...will bemuse fans of traditional mysteries, but satisfy those with a taste for unconventional narratives. -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000

About the Author

Ann Diamond is a Montreal writer now living in Kamloops, B.C. where she teaches Creative Writing. She was the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award for Evil Eye (1994). She has written for radio and theatre. Dead White Males is her third novel. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Dc Books (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0919688705
• ISBN-13: 978-0919688704
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,939,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ann Diamond was born in Montreal where she also graduated in History and Creative Writing at Concordia University. She studied fiction with Raymond Carver in the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont, and later taught creative writing at Concordia University and Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. Her long poem A Nun's Diary was adapted for theatre by director Robert Lepage. She has published three novels, three poetry collections and two books of short fiction, and won the Hugh MacLennan Award for her short story collection Evil Eye. Her translations of the collected works of Bulgarian poet Kiril Kadiiski were published in Paris and Sofia in 2007 by Les esprits des péninsules and Les presses universitaires Saint-Clément d'Ohride,followed by a second edition which appeared in 2010 with Les Belles Lettres, Paris.