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2009 | Contemporary | Fiction & Poetry
Rejection, betrayal and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel by the author of Ice.
A Scarcity of Love tells the story of a young girl, rejected by her narcissistic and vengeful mother, whose life thereafter is a continuing series of betrayals 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 derangement. As in Ice, Kavan discards such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts - even time seems to have halted in a menacing country of the emotions where the very ground is uneasy with seismic-like threats.
Anna Kavan
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| Published by | Peter Owen |
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