- Hardcover
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; Reprint edition (November 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393022730
- ISBN-13: 978-0393022735
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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From Library Journal
Kavan's 1967 hallucinogenic end-of-the-world novel follows two men's search for a girl as waves of ice threaten to destroy the planet.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Her stories are . . . rich with a fresh kind of peril." —New York Times
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Ice by Anna Kavan,
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This review is from: Ice (Paperback)
When I first read 'Ice' (from Brian Aldiss' published recommendation) I enjoyed it but didn't think it was great. It seemed to me to be about Kavan's struggle with drugs - a struggle she couldn't win. But this was a bit remote for me since I have never taken drugs. Some years later I read another Kavan novel - 'The Eagle's Nest'. This is a hot novel in comparison to the coldness of 'Ice' and, perhaps, more akin to my own personality. Anyway, it encouraged me to read 'Ice' again and now I saw it as so much stronger because it's (to me anyway) not about a futile struggle against drug addiction but something much more cosmic - the futile struggle that we all embark on against death.I have read more Kavan since then - 'A Scarcity of Love' is great. 'Let Me Alone' is something else again. Will I ever dare reread it?
5.0 out of 5 stars
Revelations from a supreme visionary,
This review is from: Ice (Paperback)
How can one not discuss Anna Kavan first when discussing her work?Ice was last published novel in her lifetime, and also her masterpiece.The plot is quite simply, two men pursue a women who they constantly victimise, against a background of universal annihilation and destruction.However the book defies description, so surrealistic is the prose and so profound is the metaphor.Anna Kavan was a heroin addict for over thirty years, and had suffered two mental breakdowns which resulted in her being institutionalized. However she was a consummate artist who re-invented herself successfully as a avant garde writer (now sadly neglected). Ice is her crowning achievemnt,read it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bare essentials of love,
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This review is from: Ice (Paperback)
I read Ice several years ago, and I recall it as a very intense experience, perhaps beacuse Kavan had altered her mind considerably through drugs by the time she wrote it and her own perception of reality and emotions was equally intense and she had to reduce it to the bare minimum before she could deal with it.The story takes place in a future ice-age, and the text is as cold as the title. An incessant, obsessive search for a woman is what I remember best of the story, and that would not in itself make it very special. I think it is the treatment of an ardent passion with ice-coldness what makes Kavan a winner.
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