
Evil
A Novel
Bell Diane(Author)
Spinifex Press
Published on 1. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
290 pages
978-1-876756-55-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Sex, silence and sin", this is what newly appointed professor, Dee P. Scrutari, writes in her notebook as she turns her anthropological gaze on the tribe of "non-reproducing males" who dominate St Jude's, a prestigious Catholic liberal arts college. Evil is in the air. Something is awry. What happened to the previous occupant of her newly-painted office? Professor Scrutari's fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. And the mystery mounts: disturbing odours that no air cleanser will disperse, turbulent faculty meetings, tenure politics, intrigue around women's bodies, and a strange ginger cat. The mix is complicated by secret student alliances, predatory priests, the end of a marriage and new love, an imperious college president, a lumbering dean, a faction-ridden Religious Studies Department, a radical mass and a dissident feminist liturgy.
Reviews / Votes
"What Diane has done is to create out of her imagination, out of her experience, a wonderfully structured, layered novel." --Sara Dowse, author, "Sapphires" and "Schemetime"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-876756-55-0 (9781876756550)
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Person
After a distinguished career in Australia and the USA, Diane Bell has retired to Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia where she continues to research, write and strategise around issues of local, national and international importance. She has authored numerous articles and edited eight books. Diane Bell now lives in Canberra where she continues to write, speak, strategise and advocate for a more just society: a concept that underwrites and unifies the various and varied facets of her feminist anthropological stance on life.

