Anna Eagles' Nest.

by KAVAN

£400 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Inscribed by Peter Owen KAVAN, Anna Eagles' Nest. London: Peter Owen 1976. 8vo. Original publishers vibrant green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and green and white price-clipped dust wrapper, pp. [vi] 179 + [3], Front wrapper lightly marked with spine and corners faded and slightly rubbed at bottom of spine; otherwise a very good copy of a scarce reissue. Scarce reissue of a novel first published in 1957. Inscribed by the publisher Peter Owen on the ffep: "Lots of Love- Daddy April 1983". Eagles Nest was first published in 1957 by the inimitable Anna Kavan, an author capable of transforming any 'ordinary' confessional into a hauting, dystopian nightmare. This cultish fantasy follows the life of a protagonist who cannot face the devastating impact of modern civilisation and begins to question the unnerving disparity between her material world and her world of dreams… SKU: 2121437

• Binding: Hardcover

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