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Passion of New Eve (Hardcover)

by Angela Carter (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited; New edition edition (May 7 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0747515875
ISBN-13: 978-0747515876
Shipping Weight: 264 g

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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If we must have futuristic fantasies of feminism's nth degrees, let them come from the darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque. And let the hero be as engaging as Evelyn, the carefree Englishman who comes to a New York of rats and tanks and the Harlem Wall and makes a chauvinistic pig of himself with Leilah - the black stripper he impregnates and deserts. "Let the punishment fit the crime," and Evelyn's punishment - after he's abducted by the followers of Mama ("The Grand Emasculator") while driving crosscountry - is to be surgically renamed Eve: "They had turned me into the Playboy centre fold." Being in "the most ludicrous mess in the world," Eve escapes, only to be captured by one-legged, one-eyed, pig-worshipping, paranoid poet Zeno, who rapes her and installs her as his eighth wife. Zeno's great mission is to annihilate the person he believes is responsible for his sterility, faded filmstar Tristessa St. Ange (who happens to have been Evelyn's all-time fantasy sex-object), and, when Zeno's tribe Mansonesquely attacks Tristessa's palace, more sex reversals are revealed, allowing Tristessa and Eve to emerge from the carnage as husband and wife. Tragedy awaits back on the road, however, via the Children's Crusade, and Evelyn/Eve finishes his/her American odyssey adrift and alone and pregnant and knowing that "the vengeance of the sex is love." Carter's surreal parable transcends polemics and skirts silliness - thanks to its urgent, no-nonsense wordings and those tides of authentic feeling pushing up against the lurid tableaux. Yes, if we must have sex-confusion mythmaking and can't have another Orlando, let's by all means have The Passion of New Eve. (Kirkus Reviews)

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This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre But Brilliant!, Jul 27 2001

By	Lauryn Angel-cann (Frisco, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Passion Of New Eve (Paperback)

This is the most outrageous Angela Carter novel I've read. Just when you begin to settle into one bizarre plot, Carter turns everything upside down and takes the story down a completely different avenue. She still manages, however, to bring all of her seemingly disparate plot elements together at the novel's satisfying close.

Evelyn's transformation from loathesome creep into a protagonist the reader actually cares about is a riotous roller-coaster ride, punctuated by Carter's beautiful prose and embellished by her perverse sense of humor. As always with Angela Carter, a satisfying, thought-provoking read!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Witty, Subversive Study of Gender..., Jan 30 2000

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This review is from: Passion Of New Eve (Paperback)

In this, one of Carter's boldest and most subversive novels, the protagonist undergoes an excrutiating exercise in de-masculinization. As a female, he realizes that women truly are "made" into nurturers, into mothers, into objects of sexual desire. Carter's prose is richly--chillingly--beautiful, as she describes one man's confusing transformation from being the "hunter" into the "hunted." Quite possibly Angela Carter's finest work--as well as one of the most provocative studies of gender construction in the Western world.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book ever., Mar 3 2000

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Had to read this book for a lit class. Unless you like really strange hard to read pointless liturature, I would strongly recommend taking a beating instead of reading this book.

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