Title: Belly fruit
First published: 2000
Description: Eli and Jerry want Zoey. Jean Paul wants to make Zoey's boss George respectable by marrying her. And George? George wants Zoey - but even more, she wants Nancy. Nancy, who's into pain; who wants everyone.Now Nancy's dead, murdered, and George is burning to find out why.

Actors, writers, and other degenerates animate this bawdy romp through the glittering, amoral arcades of consumerist culture. In Vancouver, New York, small- town Manitoba, the polymorphously perverse devour each other, illuminating the strange fascination that self-destruction can hold.

Reviewers say: "Belly Fruit explores the collisions between sexuality, obsession, art and pain, veering in tone from the gently sensual to the brutally painful." Candace Fertile, Quill & Quire. "I couldn't put it down - it makes a person break into a sweat now and then. Fascinating characters." Patrick Friesen, Poet.
LC classification: PR9199.3.D26 B45 2000