Ice - Couverture souple

Kavan, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 072061029X ISBN 13 : 9780720610291

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

In this haunting and surreal novel, two men search for a reclusive girl against a background of nuclear war, resulting in total destruction by walls of ice that overrun the world. With the narrator the reader is swept into a hallucinatory quest through the encroaching ice.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A beautiful gift edition of Anna Kavan's feminist sci-fi classic novel, features a die-cut dust jacket over contemporary art.

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 truly resigned to the fate of the world.

Anna Kavan's Ice is today hailed as classic of science-fiction and a definitive work of the 'slipstream' genre. As part of the Peter Owen Cased Classics series, this special hardback edition is bound with printed endpapers, head and tail bands and a ribbon marker. The elegant dust jacket features a die cutting of a triangle, while printed on the cover board is the striking artwork of British contemporary artist Naomi Frears.

'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

Revue de presse

'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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 072061029X
• ISBN 13: 9780720610291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible