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Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Anna Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer. Like Kafka, she writes of prisons with no bars, of paranoiac nightmares, of living in a halfway world between hell and reality. First published sixty years ago (Doubleday did it in the U.S. in 1946), Asylum Piece charts the descent of the narrator ...Show more
Children of the Albatross by Anais Nin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS is conceived as a series of lyrical descriptions of the experience of Djuna, a former ballet dancer and her circle. A woman of forty with an unexplained fortune, her only friends are associates of the ballet world, men who tend to attract her only by their least mature qualitie ...Show more
Confessions of Dan Yack by Blaise Cendrars
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
CONFESSIONS OF DAN YACK continues the adventures of the eccentric English millionaire Dan Yack. Yack is Blaise Cendrar's alter ego and the CONFESSIONS represent the distilled riches of the author's picaresque life, purportedly spoken into a Dictaphone and divided into nine 'cylinders' which constitute t ...Show more
Dan Yack by Blaise Cendrars
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Dan Yack is an eccentric English millionaire shipowner, a notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all St Petersburg. He is also the alter ego of his creator, Blaise Cendrars. This strange travel yarn begins with Dan Yack fiding out that he is no longer wanted by his lover, Hedwiga. Rejection letter in ha ...Show more
I am Lazarus by Anna Kavan
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction bore fruit in the "Julia and the Bazooka" collection of stories; ...Show more
Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Now famed for her extraordinary volumes of erotica, Anais Nin originally made her reputation with a collection of lyrical novels known as the Cities of the Interior series. Published in the aftermath of the Second World War, they were concieved by Nin as part of a 'roman fleuve', or continuous experienc ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics (2021) Ser.
In Paris France (1940)--published here with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik--Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change. ...Show more
Scandal by Shusaku Endo
$44.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics S.
Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, respectably married and on the cusp of old age. So when a drunken woman approaches him at an awards ceremony claiming to know him from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken.
The Four Chambered Heart by Anais Nin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
THE FOUR CHAMBERED HEART continues the adventures of Djuna, the eccentric star of the preceding novel, CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS. Djuna is in love with a husky and feckless Guatemalan guitar player called Rango. They make their abode on on a squalid, leaky houseboat anchored on the Seine which, like the ...Show more
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