Mona's Dance by Ann Diamond
“Characterized by a spiralling structure, the juxtaposition and superposition of different points of view, overlapping emblems and images, self-conscious use of language and syntax, and the rhythms of everyday speech,” MONA’S DANCE (1988) Ann Diamond’s first novel, was also the first in Quarry Press’ New Canadian Novelist Series.
Post-feminist, post-Freudian, post-everything, Mona’s picaresque career as a nightclub dancer and pseudo-prostitute, moves her inexorably towards politics, as recorded by her loyal, long-suffering biographer, Anne Miller.
As critic Linda Leith has aptly stated: “Marginality, indeed, is the subject of this body of fiction.”
“Whether expounding on the need for pornography in the kindergartens, or performing a striptease for an audience of close women friends, Mona was always topical, always precariously balanced.”
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