Machines in the Head Selected Stories Paul; Introduction by Paul Theroux Bowles ” A rarity in American

” A rarity in American letters

The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin

and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption

'It was a puzzle with no solution

promising a magical cure for writer's block

Machines in the Head Selected Stories Paul; Introduction by Paul Theroux Bowles ” A rarity in AmericanEnter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction