Machines in the Head: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
by Kavan, Anna
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1681374145
- ISBN 13
- 9781681374147
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About This Item
NYRB Classics, 2020. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan's stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from / Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958), and stories of addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Kavan's turn to science fiction in her final novel, Ice, is reflected in her late stories, while "Starting a Career," about a mercenary dealer of state secrets, is published here for the first time. Kavan experimented throughout her writing career with results that are moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, always unique. Machines in the Head offers American readers the first full overview of the work of a fearless and dazzling literary explorer. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025303
- Title
- Machines in the Head: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
- Author
- Kavan, Anna
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1681374145
- ISBN 13
- 9781681374147
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 192
- Keywords
- Classic Science Fiction Short Stories Drama
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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