Anna Kavan, Author Peter Owen Publishers $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0941-7
This early work from British cult novelist Kavan is a dark tale of family repression in 1920s England. (Dec.)
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Anna Kavan, Author Peter Owen Publishers $31.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0955-4
First published in 1935, Kavan's nimble riches-to-rags family saga is now something of a period piece, though it brims with sophistication and charm. The central plot revolves around urbane but domineering widower William Lewison, owner of Greater...
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Anna Kavan, Author Peter Owen Publishers $35.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0940-0
The late cult writer Kavan presents a hallucinogenic tale of a woman seeking to escape from her sadistic husband. (Aug.)
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Anna Kavan, Author Peter Owen Publishers $30 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0883-0
British author Kavan ( Asylum Piece ), who died in 1968, originally published this splendid semi-autobiographical novel in 1941 under the pseudonym Helen Ferguson. Her luminous, arresting prose has a disarming simplicity that masks currents of...
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Anna Kavan, Author W. W. Norton & Company $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-02273-5
Fog and ice and torrential rain dominate this surrealistic novel, blanketing an icicle-like woman from the man who cannot clear his eyes of her image. Occasionally he glimpses her skeleton, fossilized in snow. Twice he stumbles up a mountain to a...
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Anna Kavan, Author Peter Owen Publishers $31.95 (3p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0962-2
A painter, heroin addict and author of more than 15 books, Kavan (1901-1968) has developed a following in this country through books like A Charmed Circle and Mercury. The Parson, a posthumous discovery and the last of her novels to be published, is
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Anna Kavan, edited by Victoria Walker. New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-68137-414-7
Kavan’s inventive and chilling collection (after Ice), renders a sustained expression of despair from a writer who suffered from mental illness and heroin addiction, and died in 1968, at age 67. Many of the stories are set in mid-century psychiatric
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Anna Kavan, Author, Jennifer Sturm, Introduction by . Peter Owen $32.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1287-5
British author Kavan (1901–1968) plays with the confusion of reality and unreality in this understated posthumous novel set in a nebulous time and place. When Mark, the somewhat unstable and unreliable narrator, is young, his war-hero father...
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