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Machines in the head : selected stories / Anna Kavan ; edited by Victoria Walker.

by Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968.

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New York Review Books, 2019.

Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.

Women war correspondents -- Fiction.

Drug addiction -- Fiction.

New York Review Books classics.

9781681374147 (trade pbk.)

xv, 170 p. ; 21 cm.

from Asylum piece (1940) -- from I am Lazarus (1945) -- from A bright green field (1958) -- from Julie and the bazooka (1970) -- from My sould in China (1975) -- Previously unpublished: Starting a career.

"Anna Kavan is [...] 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 I 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." --back cover.

Walker, Victoria (Victoria Carborne).

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