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Ice
- Author
- Anna Kavan
- Narrator
- Nigel Patterson
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 January 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
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In Ice, Anna Kavan's 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.
'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
'Ice is Kavan's 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, novelist and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner
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Details
- Author
- Anna Kavan
- Narrator
- Nigel Patterson
- Duration
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004185139
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
A classic and innovative work of feminist science-fiction and a definitive novel in the slipstream genre.In Ice, Anna Kavan's 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.'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'Ice is Kavan's 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, novelist and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner
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