KAVAN, Anna; Rhys DAVIS (introduction). Julia and the Bazooka. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1975.
8vo. Original black boards with a black cloth spine, gilt titles to the spine and upper board and encased in a Muriel Nasser designed dustwrapper, pp. [viii]. 3-155 + [6], Spotting to the prelims and the top blue edge is significantly faded. Lightly rubbed dustwrapper which has a small closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. Otherwise very good copy with contents bright.
First American edition, first printing
With an illuminating introduction by close friend Rhys Davies, Julia and the Bazooka is Anna Kavan’s posthumous collection of short stories. Although works such as Asylum Piece (1940) and A Bright Green Field (1958) established Anna Kavan as a writer of profound literary originality, it was only following her death in 1968 that the extent of her contribution was commended.
Eulogised as some of her most autobiographical tales, Julia and the Bazooka is a series of sixteen short stories which reflect the writer’s own existence ‘on the edge’ and her thirty years precarious relationship to life and addiction. There is the voice of a young woman mesmerised by risk to tales of women suffering profound hallucinations and visitations from past lovers…
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