Ice
by Kavan, Anna
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organisation. There is destruction everywhere; great walls of ice overrun the world. Together with the narrator, the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest for this strange and fragile creature with albino hair. She is, we know, Anna Kavan herself. Acclaimed by Bria…
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- Full title :Ice / Anna Kavan ; foreword by Christopher Priest.
Summary
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusive girl in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organisation. There is destruction everywhere; great walls of ice overrun the world. Together with the narrator, the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest for this strange and fragile creature with albino hair. She is, we know, Anna Kavan herself. Acclaimed by Brian Aldiss on its publication in 1967 as the best science fiction book of the year, this extraordinary and innovative novel has subsequently been recognised as a major work of literature in its own right.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, Inc, Peter Owen
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
"First published in Great Britain 1967, reprinted 1997"--Title page verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:157 pages ; : 19 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0720612683, 9780720612684
- oclc:ocm85364699
- LC Classification:PR6009.D63
- Dewey Decimal:823.912
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