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Excellent ... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best ... Exciting stuff. Fay Weldon
A gem of a book. Rose Tremain
A fantastic book. Mariella Frostrup
A remarkable novel...up there with Orwell and Huxley. --Jeremy Paxman
Ambitious and subtle ... She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly ... The Ice People works persuasively as science fiction, and is truthful about our emotional lives. Nicolette Jones, The Independent
Infused with poetic intensity ... this is a gripping fictional realisation of what we fear: the death of civilisation. Maggie Gee achieves her apocalyptic vision without the clank of hardware and intergalactic wars. Her detail is precise and controlled and her beautifully orchestrated whisper of redemption is rooted in eternal myth. Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
An intriguing novel of ideas, fully fleshed out ... Classy science fiction. --Judith Cook, Mail on Sunday
Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS
Maggie Gee has gone straight for the jugular in her latest novel. Set in a cold and brutally Darwinian future ... Gee's tale shifts seamlessly between the close and dawn of the next century ... Gee has deftly thrown the inhabitants of our future into a game of survival in which every human tension is accelerated ... Gee's futuristic backdrop allows her to stretch her creative wings beautifully. --Time Out
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A gem of a book. Rose Tremain
A fantastic book. Mariella Frostrup
A remarkable novel...up there with Orwell and Huxley. --Jeremy Paxman
Ambitious and subtle ... She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly ... The Ice People works persuasively as science fiction, and is truthful about our emotional lives. Nicolette Jones, The Independent
Infused with poetic intensity ... this is a gripping fictional realisation of what we fear: the death of civilisation. Maggie Gee achieves her apocalyptic vision without the clank of hardware and intergalactic wars. Her detail is precise and controlled and her beautifully orchestrated whisper of redemption is rooted in eternal myth. Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
An intriguing novel of ideas, fully fleshed out ... Classy science fiction. --Judith Cook, Mail on Sunday
Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS
Maggie Gee has gone straight for the jugular in her latest novel. Set in a cold and brutally Darwinian future ... Gee's tale shifts seamlessly between the close and dawn of the next century ... Gee has deftly thrown the inhabitants of our future into a game of survival in which every human tension is accelerated ... Gee's futuristic backdrop allows her to stretch her creative wings beautifully. --Time Out
Maggie Gee is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature. She lives in London.
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- ÉditeurMetro Books, London
- Date d'édition1998
- ISBN 10 186066167X
- ISBN 13 9781860661679
- ReliureRelié
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages256
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THE ICE PEOPLE. (SIGNED).
Edité par
Richard Cohen Books,, London,
(1998)
ISBN 10 : 186066167X
ISBN 13 : 9781860661679
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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : New. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 244. Signed presentation copy to novelist David Caute: 'for David Caute, whose courage and brilliance I admire. Hope you like it! Love Maggie.' Review copy with slip. Novel set in a future ice age. ISBN 186066167X. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Signedes. N° de réf. du vendeur B51969
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