Machines in the Head Selected Stories Paul; Introduction by Paul Theroux Bowles 'It was a puzzle with

'It was a puzzle with no solution

promising a magical cure for writer's block

and has since published twenty-one titles

” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost

” A rarity in American letters

Machines in the Head Selected Stories Paul; Introduction by Paul Theroux Bowles 'It was a puzzle withEnter 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