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Ice
- Title
- Ice / Anna Kavan ; foreword by Jonathan Lethem ; afterword by Kate Zambreno.
- Author
- Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968
- Publication
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
- ©1967
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-5372 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 193 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden and save her before the ice closes all around. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of violence and trauma, a Kafkaesque literary dreamscape, and a brilliant allegory for its author's struggles with addiction--all crystallized in prose as glittering as the piling snow. Acclaimed upon its publication as one of the best science fiction books of the year, Kavan's 1967 novel has built a reputation as an extraordinary and innovative work of literature, garnering acclaim from China Mieville, Patti Smith, J.G. Ballard, Anaïs Nin, and Doris Lessing, among others. With echoes of dystopian classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and J.G. Ballard's High Rise, Ice is a necessary and unforgettable addition to the canon of science fiction classics"--
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Apocalyptic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5372
- ISBN
- 9780143131991
- 0143131990
- LCCN
- 2017018717
- OCLC
- 974672339
- Author
- Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968, author.
- Title
- Ice / Anna Kavan ; foreword by Jonathan Lethem ; afterword by Kate Zambreno.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©1967
- Edition
- 50th anniversary edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Penguin classicsPenguin classics.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5372