Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

Synopsis

These unforgettable stories were published shortly after novelist Anna Kavan's death in 1968 following decades of herion use - 'bazooka' being her term for syringe. The title story can be seen as a summing-up of her life as an addict, but all these pieces are fragments of autobiography, written with her trademark icy precision and grace and suffused with an unsettling atmosphere.