{"product_id":"machines-in-the-head-selected-stories","title":"Machines in the Head: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eEnter 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan's stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from \u003ci\u003eAsylum Piece \u003c\/i\u003e(1940), moving evocations of wartime from \u003ci\u003eI Am Lazarus \u003c\/i\u003e(1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from \u003ci\u003eA Bright Green Field \u003c\/i\u003e(1958), and stories of addiction from \u003ci\u003eJulia and the Bazooka \u003c\/i\u003e(1970). Kavan's turn to science fiction in her final novel, \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e, is reflected in her late stories, while \"Starting a Career,\" about a mercenary dealer of state secrets, is published here for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kavan experimented throughout her writing career with results that are moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, always unique. \u003ci\u003eMachines in the Head \u003c\/i\u003eoffers American readers the first full overview of the work of a fearless and dazzling literary explorer.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943365116135,"sku":"9781681374147","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_c38f8d4f-feac-4cbd-913c-faff5daa77e7.jpg?v=1775320607","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/machines-in-the-head-selected-stories","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}