A Scarcity of Love

By Anna Kavan

Book Overview

Rejection, betrayal, and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel. Discarding such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts, this narrative 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. Demonstrating a nearly perfect control over language, this tale describes, in the simplest and most ordinary of terms, the bizarre and hallucinatory landscape of derangement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720613272
• ISBN13: 9780720613278
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 7.2"