"A Feminist Black Comedy"
CARTER, Angela The Passion of New Eve. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1977.
8vo. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; Pictorial dust jacket in black and yellow; pp. [iv], 191, [1]; bumping to head of spine; otherwise near fine.
First edition.
Described in the blurb as "baroque in style, apocolyptic in vision", The Passion of New Eve is a story of a universe being dismantled, based in a post-apocolyptic America during a civil war, and uses Carter's stylistic mythical framework to analyse the very mythology of sexuality itself, in the kaleidoscopic fashion of a cult-canonical and intensely original modern writer. She would herself chisten it, a "feminist black comedy".
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