Peter Owen Modern Classic: Asylum Piece (Paperback)

from proustitute

4.5 starsAnna Kavan needs to be more widely read. She is very much a stylistic link between Woolf and Bowen, but perhaps the sheer unclassifiable nature of Kavan's work-and I'm judging this solely on Asylum Piece and Ice as I've not read more just yet-is the cause for the other two writers being ...

from proustitute

4.5 starsAnna Kavan needs to be more widely read. She is very much a stylistic link between Woolf and Bowen, but perhaps the sheer unclassifiable nature of Kavan's work-and I'm judging this solely on Asylum Piece and Ice as I've not read more just yet-is the cause for the other two writers being ...

from proustitute

4.5 stars Anna Kavan needs to be more widely read. She is very much a stylistic link between Woolf and Bowen, but perhaps the sheer unclassifiable nature of Kavan's work—and I'm judging this solely on Asylum Piece and Ice as I've not read more just yet—is the cause for the other two writers bein...

from dbsovereign

Rich. Poetic. Real. Kavan is a master at capturing the insane aspect of all of us.

from icolford

The American edition of Asylum Piece, published in 1946 by Doubleday, combines two volumes of Anna Kavan's remarkable stories first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape: Asylum Piece (1940), and I am Lazarus (1945). From 1929 to 1937, Kavan (1901-1968) had published six novels under the name Hele...