Diana A Diary in the Second Person Author:Russell Smith In 2003 well known novelist, Globe & Mail contributor and CBC personality Russell Smith wrote a pornographic novel under the pseudonym Diane Savage. Few copies made it into circulation, and even fewer people knew who really wrote the book. This edition, with a new introduction by the author, parts the veil on Smiths pseudomonious existence, an... more »d makes the book widely available for the first time. Written in the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), as delicately written as the tales of Anais Nin or Pauline Reage, Smiths pornographic novel portrays in memoir form female desire. The unnamed narrator gorgeous, sophisticated, bored, underemployed embarks on a series of intense urban encounters and relationships, described with Smiths trademark wit and linguistic playfulness. Her desire is limitless: toe curling intense, without reserve. Diana: A Diary in the Second Person is a literary experiment, a modernist tale told in deft prose, whose goal is to arouse and to paint a sexual portrait of a city. It scorches.« less