Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves

Gerald Musgrave wants to write romance novels. Instead, he makes a deal with a devil and inherits a silver steed. What begins as one Southern gentleman's attempt to master the thaumaturgical arts becomes something far grander and more absurd: a mock-epic quest for godhood, to rule the eternal kingdom of Antan and unseat every myth and legend ever told. Cabell, the author who survived an obscenity trial for Jurgen, returns with another bawdy and bewildering comedy, this time peeling back the fig leaves of romance, masculinity, and divine ambition to reveal the ridiculous divinity beneath. The prose archs with mock-heroic grandeur while the narrator winkingly assures us that all shall be explained in the sequel. It's a book about what happens when an ordinary man decides to stop writing about adventure and start living it and the collision between literary fantasy and actual power.