Anna Kavan

• 1975
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• Oct-1985
• / Science Fiction
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A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem"One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half c...

• Nov-1985
• / Literary
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• Nov-1993
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1995
• / General Fiction
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Set against a world facing apocalypse, a man searches for a woman who has left her sadistic husband. This glittering, hallucinogenic novel is surely one of the best inspired by drug-taking."" - Doris Lessing ""[A] work of genius."" - Publishers Weekl...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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A strong early novel first published in 1935 under the name of Helen Ferguson. Set in the 1930s, in Bohemian London, Paris, and southern France, the story concerns a rich family and their financial and emotional vicissitudes. The autobiographical ele...

• Apr-2002
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Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer. Like Kafka, she writes of prisons with no bars, of paranoiac nightmares, of living in a halfway world between hell and reality. First published sixty years ago (Doubleday did it in the U.S. in 1946)...

• Apr-2002
• / Historical Romance
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The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan’s lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan’s last and most en...

• Sep-2002
• / Fantasy
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Depicting the hopeless, emotional polarity of a young couple, this novel follows their doomed marriage spent in a remote, tropical hell. She -- described only as "the girl" -- is young, sophisticated and sensitive. He, "Mr. Dog-Head," is an unreconst...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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A classic later novel by Anna Kavan.

A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, this daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation chronicles the subject's gradual withdrawal from the daylight world of rec...

• May-2007
• / Science Fiction
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Set in an unspecified but eerily familiar time and landscape, this is the story of Mark, a protagonist who struggles against the machinations of a hostile society and bureaucracy. Suffering at first from the persecution of his father as a conscientio...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Rejection, betrayal, and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel. Discarding such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts, this narrative tells the story of a young girl, rejected by her narcissisti...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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Anna Kavan now stands alongside Virginia Woolf as one of Britain's great 20th-century modernists. In this posthumous collection of Kavan's short stories, some of the author's most compelling writing is revealed, inspired in great part by her pe...

• Jan-2013
• / Literary
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Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf

The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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An early work from Anna Kavan strongly evoking life in England and its colonies from the early years of the century through the period following the First World War. More straightforward than her more famous novels, Let Me Alone is nevertheless fasci...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories.

Anna Kavan is one ...