A Final Collection
KAVAN, Anna A Bright Green Field. London: Peter Owen Limited.1958.
8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine; unclipped illustrated dust jacket with Eric Patton artwork and publisher's '25s' oversticker; pp. [vi] 192; spine ends slightly bruised and a minimal lean; mild rubbing to bottom and to front panel of dustjacket but art work remains pristine; fine.
An excellent example of an extremely scarce volume, signed by publisher Peter Owen, one of Kavan's most prominent advocates, to the title page.
The final story collection to be published in Kavan's lifetime, A Bright Green Field, is a superior example of her mysterious and modern practice; thinly disguised autobiography melding heroin addicted hallucination with striking surrealist narrative structure. These stories demonstrate her understanding and examination of the conflict between dreams and reality, a conflict which plagued her own life.
L.P. Hartley writes in The Sunday Times (as issued on the blurb); "She is an artist of great distinction".
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