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Ice

Ice

by Anna Kavan
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/09/2017

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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
ISBN:
9780720620054
9780720620054
Category:
Classic science fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
28-09-2017
Publisher:
Peter Owen Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
186x123mm
Anna Kavan

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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