Eve's Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things

By Deborah McKay

Eve's Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things is a story of a modern fictional saint in the making. In the course of Eve's twin spiritual and physical journeys. Deborah McKay's moving yet unsentimental novel explores alarming real-life resolutions to universal complexities and offers instead of answers the seductive and dangerous experience of its captivating central character. Eve is a shockingly original character: at once a philosopher, an artist with a highly developed visual imagination, and a visionary mystic. Her longing, as the subtitle suggests, is for: the Infinite Possibilities in All Things." In the course of her journey, this longing, which is essentially spiritual and philosophical in origin, becomes for us immediately tangible, sensuous, and fully real. Eve's longing takes her from New York City to a monastery in Assisi, Italy, the home of St. Francis, then back again to New York. Along the way her longing grows into a desire so intense that it engenders a compassion verging on the saintly and a cruelty equally as extreme. Her desires, when unfulfilled, lead to sexual excesses, hallucinations, and transformative spiritual visions. In the course of Eve's journey we meet characters both alive and dead: her sister Claire, her parents, her lovers, St. Francis, and the Virgin Mary: and two of her most intimate companions, the Spiral and the Pearl String, both creations of her own mind. Eve's Longing creates almost a new literary genre in literature. It combines the intimacy of an entrusting autobiography with the intrigue of a novel and the cool detachment of a clinical study. The consequence of Eve's Fascination with "The Infinite Possibilities in All Things"--the temptation to which the original and our Eve succumb--is both an end and a beginning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932511651
• ISBN13: 9780932511652
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: F2c
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Eve's Longing

Wow, I just finished this book and it is truely enlightening. The novel tells an incredible story of a young woman who is looking for the infinite possibilities of all things. It details a trip through her concious as she sees much more in life than one may think is possible. A must read for the intellectual mind.

Great little known gem!

I have the rare privilege of knowing Deborah McKay, a wonderful and radical artist. Eve's Longing explores philosophy as it pushes the limits (or destroy them) of modern living. The reader can travel the infinite possibilities of life with aptly-named protagonist Eve, a woman who is not satisfied with the mundane. Eve demontrates that experimentation and above all else experience matter more than all else, but that we still do not live in a consequence-free world. A joyride, I've read it so many times and given it as a gift to so many friends... how else would they find such a rare gem? If you've made it this far to read this, go ahead and buy it. You're in for a treat!

Incredible

I'm also a student of the author...and even though her excellence as a teacher prompts high expectations, they were far exceeded by this novel. The prose is light and real, yet full of vivid, profound imagery. It certainly changed the way I look at the world. A suprising book, highly recommended...

Great Author!

Ms. McKay is my English teacher at the Lawrenceville School. She is an absolutely awesome teacher and a phenomenal writer as well. Even though I havent read the book, I can already tell that it is absolutely wonderful. READ IT!