- Series: Penguin Queer Writers
- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405998093
- Length: 240 pages
- Price: £6.99
The Monkey’s Mask
byDorothy Porter, Val McDermid (Introducer)
GuardianShot through with a lively brilliance, The Monkey's Mask is a traditional verse novel told in multiple voices, which also happens to be an erotic lesbian detective romance. Like the archetypal hero of Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, Porter's lesbian private eye heroine, Jill Fitzpatrick, is torn between passionate love and professional ethics
The TimesPorter offered energetic, spare, sexy and irreverent poetry, which she was able to perform with unforgettable passion and energy
London Review of BooksThe Monkey’s Mask undertakes its projects with energy and originality . . . Porter’s anger at the endless self-regeneration of the posing posh is raw and uncontained, and she deserves immediate nomination for poetry prizes the length and breadth of the nation for her coinage of the literary term ‘I’ve-got-a-big-dick epic’
About Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter was an internationally acclaimed Australian poet, verse novelist and librettist. Her work was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Prime Minister's Literary Award and won the Adelaide Festival Award. Her verse novel, The Monkey's Mask, won The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the National Book Council Award, as well as being an international bestseller. Dorothy Porter died in 2008.
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