Ice

Author(s): Anna Kavan

Fiction

Beautiful cased edition of this classic novel.In a land devastated by war, a nameless narrator pursues an elusive white-haired woman in the clutches of a government official known only as `The Warden'. Neither will giver her up, but a freak ecological apocalypse is indifferent to their rival claims. As a terrifying wall of ice continues its incursion, freezing everything in its path, it seems that only the white-haired woman is resigned to the fate of the world.`A classic, a vision of unremitting intensity which combines some remarkable imaginative writing with what amounts to a love-song to the end of the world. Not a word is wasted, not an image is out of place.' - Times Literary Supplement `Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision.' - J.G. Ballard

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'A classic, a vision of unremitting intensity which combines some remarkable imaginative writing with what amounts to a love-song to the end of the world. Not a word is wasted, not an image is out of place.' - Times Literary Supplement; 'Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision.' - J.G. Ballard; 'There is nothing else like it...This ice is not psychological ice or metaphysical ice; here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner's.' - Doris Lessing; 'Ice is her best novel: a sustained and extended metaphor for the descent into, and traverse of, the ice-laden world of the addict ... a marvel of descriptive, chilling writing, rich in action and introspection.' - Christopher Priest;

General Fields

  • : 9780720620054
  • : Peter Owen Publishers
  • : Peter Owen Publishers
  • : 31 August 2017
  • : 01 July 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anna Kavan
  • : 176