· Overview. A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem. "One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future A half century after its first appearance, Kavan’s fever dream of a novel is beginning to seem all too real."Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. · ICE. by Anna Kavan ‧RELEASE DATE: Nov. 14, This 50th-anniversary edition of a novel about a surreal pursuit through an apocalyptic world should bring new attention to Kavan (; Who Are You, , etc.), a writer of intense imagination. Kavan’s unnamed narrator returns to his home country after spending time abroad in the tropics and finds the countryside in the clutch of Author: Megan Kurashige. Ice, Anna Kavan Ice is a novel by Anna Kavan, published in Ice was Kavan's last work to be published before her death, the first to land her mainstream success, and remains her most well-known work. Ice is set during an apocalypse in which a massive, monolithic ice shelf, caused by nuclear war, is engulfing the earth/5().
Anna Kavan's novel "Ice," a fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe, was first published fifty years ago. In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains. Ice came out in and was the last of Anna Kavan's books to be published in her lifetime. It won the science fiction book of the year after being nominated by Brian Aldiss.
Ice is a novel by British writer Anna Kavan, published in Ice was Kavan's last work to be published before her death, the first to land her mainstream success, and remains her best-known work. Generally regarded as genre-defying, it has been labelled a work of science fiction, Nouveau roman, and slipstream fiction. In Kavan’s last novel, Ice, the apocalypse isn’t ecological — it is psychosocial, a premonition of the emotional actions that lead to a world’s end. Kavan knew much from the painful and passionate events that punctuated her life. Ice by Anna Kavan is written in a superb style that makes virtually any New York Times bestseller look like a mediocre freshman paper. This is the only reason I gave the book two stars. The bad: The book is rife with unnecessary descriptions and distractions that can be quite tedious.
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