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Anna Kavan's New Zealand - A Pacific interlude in a turbulent life by Anna Kavan; Jennifer Sturm (ed.)
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealanders live 'in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home', wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943. Her seemingly negative comments created a stir both in the UK and New Zealand and suggested Kavan felt nothing but antipathy for the country. However, in researchin ...Show more
Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Anna 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), Asylum Piece charts the descent of the narrator ...Show more
I am Lazarus by Anna Kavan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
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 bore fruit in the "Julia and the Bazooka" collection of stories; ...Show more
Ice by Anna Kavan
$22.08 NZD
$24.00 (8% off)
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, ...Show more
Ice by Anna Kavan
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Ice by Anna Kavan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, ...Show more
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