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Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics) - 9780860683414 - KAC0001652
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The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics)

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Description for The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics) Paperback. THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear

'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT

'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES

'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' KIRKUS REVIEWS

'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 . ... Read more
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. The Passion of New Eve is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English women writers'.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Virago Modern Classics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860683414
SKU
KAC0001652
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940-1992), journalist and writer; author of novels, poems and film scripts has had her talents much lauded; 'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century'- Marina Walker, Independent

Reviews for The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics)
Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century
Marina Walker
Independent
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
If we must have futuristic fantasies of feminism's ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics)


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