Sleep Has His House

by Anna Kavan

Book Overview

A classic later novel by Anna Kavan. A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, this daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation chronicles the subject's gradual withdrawal from the daylight world of received reality. Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence, and youth are described in what is defined as "nighttime language"--a heightened, decorative prose that frees these events from their gloomy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935576002
• ISBN13: 9780935576009
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Michael Kesend Publishing, Limited
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.