Kavan's Posthumous Collection
KAVAN, Anna. Julia and the Bazooka. London: Peter Owen. 1970.
8vo. Original publisher's yellow cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, price-clipped green and black dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 157, [1]; extremities of the dust jacket stained as is rear wrapper lightly stained; otherwise very good.
First UK edition
With an illuminating introduction by close friend Rhys Davies, Julia and the Bazooka is a posthumous collection of Anna Kavan’s short stories. Although works such as Asylum Piece (1940) and A Bright Green Field (1958) established Kavan as a writer of originality, it only was following her death in 1968 that the true extent of her contribution was recognised.
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…
SKU: 2121765
Kavan's Posthumous Collection
KAVAN, Anna. Julia and the Bazooka. London: Peter Owen. 1970.
8vo. Original publisher's yellow cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, price-clipped green and black dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 157, [1]; extremities of the dust jacket stained as is rear wrapper lightly stained; otherwise very good.
First UK edition
With an illuminating introduction by close friend Rhys Davies, Julia and the Bazooka is a posthumous collection of Anna Kavan’s short stories. Although works such as Asylum Piece (1940) and A Bright Green Field (1958) established Kavan as a writer of originality, it only was following her death in 1968 that the true extent of her contribution was recognised.
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…
SKU: 2121765
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