The Passion Of New Eve
$32.38
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 March 1996
Summary
I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, 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…
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860683414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860683419 |
| Author: | Angela Carter |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 2 March 1996 |
| Weight: | 137g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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‘If you can imagine Baudelaire, Blake and Kafka getting together to describe America, you are well on the way to Carter’s visionary and lurid world’ THE TIMES ‘Her writing is pyrotechnic’ OBSERVER
About The Author
Angela Carter
One of Britain’s most original writers, Angela Carter published her first novel, SHADOW DANCE, in 1965. Carter’s death in 1992 ‘robbed the English literary scene of one of its most vivacious and compelling voices’.
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