Автор: Kavan Anna Название: Machines in the Head: Selected Stories of Anna Kavan ISBN: 1681374145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681374147 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1853.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 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.
Автор: Kavan, Anna Название: Ice ISBN: 0241307392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241307397 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. BallardNo 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, silver-haired girl he loves, as she keeps running - away from her husband; away from the sinister 'warden' who seeks to control her; away from him. 'A raw, brutal tale set in a frozen post-nuclear dystopia ...
addictive and extremely entertaining' Guardian'There is nothing else quite like Ice' Doris Lessing'She is De Quincey's heir and Kafka's sister' Brian Aldiss
Автор: Kavan Stanley Название: The Delicious Little Book of Love, Laughter and Tears ISBN: 1977218148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977218148 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1905.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Delicious Little Book of Love, Laughter and Tears A merry-go-round of delightful reading A beguiling mix of whimsical mini stories, titillating poems and engaging, down-to-earth commentary about everyday affairs. The ultimate companion for relaxing or traveling. Matchless for gift giving. A treasure for all ages. Caution: don't lend it out; it will never be returned.
