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Ice / Anna Kavan.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF KAVA	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241441565 (paperback)
Name	Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968 author.
Title	Ice / Anna Kavan.
Published	[London] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published	©1967
Description	170 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Originally published: 1967.
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.
Subjects	Nuclear warfare -- Fiction
	End of the world -- Fiction
	Recluses -- Fiction
	Glacial epoch -- Fiction
Genre	Apocalyptic fiction
Series	Penguin classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Apocalyptic fiction . End of the world -- Fiction . Glacial epoch -- Fiction . Nuclear warfare -- Fiction . Recluses -- Fiction . Authors: Kavan, Anna, 1901-1968 . Series: Penguin classics .