EAN: 9780241307397

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS ICE - ANNA KAVAN KART...

Anna Kavan was born in 1901  the only child of a wealthy British family. She began publishing
under her married name  Helen Ferguson. During this time  she was introduced to heroin by her
tennis coach in order to improve her game. She suffered a breakdown after the end of her second
marriage  and was committed to an institution to treat both her depression and her addiction.
She published her two best-known novels after this experience  Asylum Piece and Ice  under
'Anna Kavan'  the name of a character in an earlier novel. She died of heart failure at her
home in London in 1968.

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