Sleep Has His House - Hardcover

Kavan, Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935576002 ISBN 13: 9780935576009

Publisher: Michael Kesend Pub Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

A young girl experiences a lonely childhood, her father mysteriously absent and her mother a cold, unsympathetic woman who is pale and dressed in black, like a figure from a dream

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Kavan was one of the greatest unsung enigmas in 20th-century British literature. Born as Helen Ferguson, who had a fraught childhood and two failed marriages led her to change her name to that of one of her characters. Despite struggling with mental illness and heroin addiction for most of her life, she was still able to write fiction that was as powerful and memorable as any English female writer of the last 150 years.

Review:

"'Possibly one of her most interesting books, a near masterpiece in the imaginative speculations of those whose paradise simultaneously contains their hell.' - The Times; 'Anna Kavan's 'night-time language' is in no way obscure: on the contrary, her dreams are as carefully notated as paintings by Dali or de Chirico.' - New Statesman; 'Her dramas are haunted by a tall woman in black - her mother. There is also a revealing passage of an addict's sordid bedroom, littered with needles and spilled powders... Her writing is magnificent. It is a fascinating clinical casebook of her individual obsessions and the effects of drugs on her imagination... in the tradition of the great writers on drug literature, de Quincey, Wilkie Collins, Coleridge.' -Daily Telegraph; 'A testament of remarkable, if feverish beauty.' -Robert Nye, Guardian"

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Kesend Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0935576002
• ISBN 13: 9780935576009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182