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 one of Britain's most brilliant writers.

"If you can imagine Baudelaire, Blake and Kafka getting together to describe America, yuo are well on the way to Carter's visionary and lurid world." --The Times