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A hallucinatory post-apocalypse fever-dream
Anna Kavan was an English writer and painter born, Helen Emily Woods and first published under her married name of Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name of ... READ MORE
A haunting and surreal apocalyptic novel
Ice is a masterpiece characterised by its beautiful and haunting language and imagery. The novel follows a man who seeks an elusive girl, hoping to find he... READ MORE
Synopsis
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path.
Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, silver-haired girl he loves, as she keeps running - away from her husband; away from the sinister 'warden' who seeks to control her; away from him.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241597330
- Number of pages: 240
- Dimensions: 167 x 120 x 25 mm
- Weight: 242g
- Languages: English
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A hauntingly beautiful and surreal novel
Ice by Anna Kavan is a hauntingly beautiful and surreal novel that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Set in a frozen, apocalyptic world, the sto... READ MORE
Wrap up warm, it’s cold out there!
A cult classic. A dystopian nightmare of encroaching ice and a search for the girl he is obsessed with. But this wasn’t for me. I love cli-fi and dystopian... READ MORE
Not my usual kind of reading......
Not my usual kind of reading and felt this book wasn't very fluid. It jumped about a bit and I sometimes had to go back and read some parts again, to make ... READ MORE
A strange and beautiful novel
This is a strange book and I’m not sure I’ll be able to describe it adequately! It’s probably not something I would normally have chosen to read, but this ... READ MORE
A journey through an unsparing hallucinogenic dystopia
If there is one classic of science fiction that can never be bettered or aped or repeated, this might be one of them. (Another is Samuel R. Delany’s simila... READ MORE
A strange but compelling book!
I wasn't sure what to expect with this book and in some ways I'm still not entirely sure what I got, but I can tell you I enjoyed it! This edition started ... READ MORE
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