Machines in the head : selected stories
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Contributors
Walker, Victoria editor.
Published
New York, NY : New York Review of Books, 2019.
ISBN
9781681374147, 1681374145
Physical Desc
xv, 170 pages ; 21 cm.
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Providence Public - Level G Fiction | Fic Kavan | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, NY : New York Review of Books, 2019.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781681374147, 1681374145
Notes
Description
"Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This anthology of Kavan's stories draws together a selection of her best writing from across her long career. Stories from across her collections show the range of her style: oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and asylum incarceration 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. Her late sci-fi stories will appeal to fans of her last novel, Ice. "Five Days to Countdown," first published in Encounter (1968) and later collected in My Soul in China, is preoccupied with Cold War concerns and the sartorial aesthetics of the 1960s, and, published here for the first time, "Starting a Career" is a futuristic spy thriller, whose protagonist sets out to become the world's greatest enigma. Kavan was determined to experiment throughout her writing career, and this collection is moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, but always distinctive and often unique. And even though better known as a writer than an artist, Kavan painted throughout her life; several of her distinctive paintings are included in this collection to illustrate her stories"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kavan, A., & Walker, V. (2019). Machines in the head: selected stories . New York Review of Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968 and Victoria Walker. 2019. Machines in the Head: Selected Stories. New York Review of Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968 and Victoria Walker. Machines in the Head: Selected Stories New York Review of Books, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kavan, Anna, and Victoria Walker. Machines in the Head: Selected Stories New York Review of Books, 2019.
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