An edition of A Scarcity of Love (1956)

A Scarcity of Love

A Novel

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An edition of A Scarcity of Love (1956)

A Scarcity of Love

A Novel

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The author of this extraordinary novel was a heroin addict who died by her own hand in December of 1968 [Note: this is not proven - J.H.]. Out of her terrifying experience with mental illness she created a body of fiction of intense, near-surrealist artistry, but it is only posthumously that she is receiving the wider acclaim which her writing commands.

The present work, first published in 1956, contains some of her finest prose and is clearly autobiographical in nature. It tells the story of a young girl, rejected by her narcissistic and vengeful mother, whose life thereafter is yet another series of betrayal that can lead only to the dead-end of madness and death. Like Sylvia Plath, Anna Kavan was capable of nearly perfect control over language as she strove to describe, in the simplest and most ordinary of terms, the bizarre and hallucinatory landscape of her oncoming and inevitable derangement. (From the book jacket, first american edition, published in 1972).

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Publisher
Herder and Herder
Language
English
Pages
200

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Cover of: A Scarcity of Love
A Scarcity of Love: A novel
2009, Peter Owen modern classics
Paperback in English
Cover of: Mal aimées
Mal aimées
1975, Stock
in French
Cover of: A Scarcity of Love
A Scarcity of Love: A Novel
1972, Herder and Herder
in English
Cover of: A scarcity of love
A scarcity of love: A novel
1971, Peter Owen
in English
Cover of: A Scarcity of Love
A Scarcity of Love: A novel
1956, Angus Downie
in English - First edition

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/12
Library of Congress
PZ3.E241 Sc5, PR6009.D63 Sc5

The Physical Object

Pagination
200 p.
Number of pages
200
Dimensions
22 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5108571M
LCCN
74181007
OCLC/WorldCat
251716

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