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The Passion of New Eve

By: Angela Carter
Narrated by: Piers Hampton
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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....

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.

©1977 Angela Carter (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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I've read The Bloody Chamber before this one and the moment I saw the title I knew I'd love it. I really like Carter's style and very vivid description of all things. I'd definitely recommend!

I love this book so strangely fascinating!

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This is a strange book with a strange premise, but the strange and bizarre was what Angela Carter dealt with. This is a really strong and angry novel, and with very very weird storylines.

However, I enjoyed every minute of it. The narration by Piers Hampton was simply wonderful. It got me invested as soon as it started. A perfect narration for me.

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I’ve been a fan of Carter’s work for decades, yet missed this one. It is evidently inspired by her reading of Sade’s Justine and Juliette, and like Sade it doesn’t pull any punches. As a satire on gender, sex and the USA I can’t say I’ve come across anything more scathing, or at times more poetic. Also I love the performance. One of the most dramatic and nuanced I’ve heard, when so many sound so robotic. It has definitely stood the test of time

Carter at her most challenging

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If there's one thing I simply cannot stand, it's the sound of a man whispering. It gives me the creeps. Listening to the narrator of this book is like waking up in bed to find Joe Biden lying there beside you, murmuring intimately about,,, about what he'd.... I can't even write it.

The story itself is tortuous and absurd, some kind of abstract misandrist fantasy concerning a character so unpleasant and vacant you don't care if he lives or dies.

That's about all I have to say about it.

Grim in all respects

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