- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Dc_books (2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0919688705
- ISBN-13: 978-0919688704
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 195 g
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...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
Set against the backdrop of Montreal in cold winter, [...] along lines of The Big Sleep meets Brazil meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The title, Dead White Males, refers to a covert group of dusty University professors who may or may not be pulling strings behind the scenes. [...] through surreal twists and turns, Ann Diamond delivers an ending tying up all loose ends - with, of course, the requisite twist. The repartee, snappy phrasing, betrayals and sense of desperation - all traits of the classic Humphrey Bogart flick - work well in a theatre of the absurd. In fact, Dead White Males is one of those rare books that would, on a second reading, like the second viewing of a film, glean more fine detail and laughter. -- The Antigonish Review, spring 2002
nutty, paranoid, messy and a great deal of fun. A must for Ann Diamond fans. -- Montreal Gazette, January 27, 2001
...will bemuse fans of traditional mysteries, but satisfy those with a taste for unconventional narratives. -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 2000
Set against the backdrop of Montreal in cold winter, [...] along lines of The Big Sleep meets Brazil meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The title, Dead White Males, refers to a covert group of dusty University professors who may or may not be pulling strings behind the scenes. [...] through surreal twists and turns, Ann Diamond delivers an ending tying up all loose ends - with, of course, the requisite twist. The repartee, snappy phrasing, betrayals and sense of desperation - all traits of the classic Humphrey Bogart flick - work well in a theatre of the absurd. In fact, Dead White Males is one of those rare books that would, on a second reading, like the second viewing of a film, glean more fine detail and laughter. -- The Antigonish Review, spring 2002
nutty, paranoid, messy and a great deal of fun. A must for Ann Diamond fans. -- Montreal Gazette, January 27, 2001
Book Description
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?
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