Julia and the Bazooka: and Other Stories (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

Anna Kavan now stands alongside Virginia Woolf as one of Britain's great twentieth-century modernists. Julia and the Bazooka is a posthumous collection of Kavan's short stories. It contains some of her most compelling writing, which owes much to her personal experiences-especially her nearly lifelong addiction to heroin. An important literary work, these stories highlight the shadowed world of the incurable drug addict and probe the psychological aspects of addiction.