'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 Jesuit liberal arts college in the north east
of the US. Something is awry. What happened to the previous
occupant of her newly painted office? Professor Scrutari's
fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. The mystery mounts:
disturbing odours, turbulent faculty meetings, a strange ginger
cat, tenure politics and intrigue. The mix is enriched by secret
student alliances, predatory priests, the end of a marriage and a
new love, a faction-ridden Religious Studies department, a radical
mass and a dissident feminist liturgy. The determined
anthropologist doodles and decodes the symbols and signs of evil as
she teams up with a band of colleagues marginalised by the
department -- a liberation theology nun, a gay priest, and a Jew --
and three feisty women students. They strategize and sleuth as they
attempt to solve a number of campus mysteries. "Evil", Dee
declares, "is visceral, pervasive, subtle, not an abstract conceit
at all." Evil is about now. 'Evil' is a novel full of vivid
characters you know, or want to know. At once funny, witty,
sobering, profound and provocative, full of affection for the
academic world Diane Bell so lovingly describes, and is concerned
to nurture against the darker forces she seeks to identify and
expose.
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