The Passion Of New Eve Av Angela Carter

<p><b>'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, <i>INDEPENDENT </i></b><br><br><b>'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' <i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><br><b>'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i></b><br><br><i>'I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . '<br></i><br>New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. <i>The Passion of New Eve </i>is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English women writers'.</p>