Klara and the Sun Friendship Fiction and this Penguin Modern Classics

and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking

their relationships deepen and darken

inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord

Here are tales of doubles and living dolls

Klara and the Sun Friendship Fiction and this Penguin Modern ClassicsThe Sun always has ways to reach us. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and