Penguin Science Fiction: Ice

Penguin Science Fiction: Ice
Anna Kavan
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Paperback
h181 x 111mm - 176pg
3 Jun 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241441565
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A dreamlike, frozen dystopia from one of the twentieth century' s most unique writersNo 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 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. . . Mysterious, unnerving, and beautifully lyrical, Anna Kavan' s Ice is a work of science fiction without parallel.

Ark Sakura, The
Black No More
Driftglass
Ice
Make Room! Make Room!
Warm Worlds and Otherwise

Astonishes with poetic brilliance * Sunday Telegraph * There is nothing else like it. . . This ice is not psychological or metaphysical ice; here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner' s. -- Doris Lessing One of the most mysterious of modern writers, Anna Kavan created a uniquely fascinating fictional world. Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision -- J. G. Ballard One of the most terrifying postulations about the end of the world. . One can only admire the strength and courage of this visionary * The Times * Brutal, addictive and extremely entertaining. . . strange, unsettling and harsh * Guardian * Ice is superbly unsettling. . . this novel is perfect winter reading. -- James Marriott * The Times * Just the most magnificent book. . . hugely enigmatic, a genuine novel of the unconscious and a masterpiece. I feel very passionate about it, as you can probably tell. -- Frank Tallis * Guardian *
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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ISBN-13: 9780241441565
Published: 3 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 181mm
Width: 111mm
Spine: 9mm
Weight: 107g
Pages: 176

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