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# Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics)

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Review: Ice (Peter Owen Modern Classic) - I started reading this quite a while ago and ended up putting it aside because I couldn't "gel" with it. I came back to it two days ago and ended up "falling" into this haunting, desolate and surreal story. The picture of a bleak and fragmented apocalyptic world is vivid and uncompromising, but it is the relationship between the unstable narrator, the sinister "warden and the waif like and ethereal "girl" which is fascinating and compelling reading ..........and then there is the ice. The novel itself is written with a sense of urgency, pervading doom. I can't give this novel any higher accolades, except to say that 5 stars doesn't seem enough. A story that will haunt your peace of mind.
Review: There's no escape - This is a dark tale of obsession told against the backdrop of war and the apocalyptic encroachment of snow and ice. We are not directly told the cause of these disasters, and it doesn't matter. Rather, the story is told through the determined, and sometimes hallucinatory eyes of a man on a fevered and quasi-erotic mission to possess the recalcitrant young woman of his obsession. It is here, amid a teetering psychology which mirrors that of the collapsing world order, that the meaningful action of this short novel takes place. Throughout Kavan masterfully conveys a feeling of dread and naked will amidst absurdity. This is not feel good story, yet the writing is intriguing enough to keep the reader engaged. It transcends categorisation. It is worth your time but, if you're like me, you'll be glad when it's over.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,389,057 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #130 in Science Fiction Short Stories #5,373 in Literary Fiction (Books) #7,429 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (718) |
| Dimensions  | 0.6 x 5 x 7.7 inches |
| Edition  | Anniversary,Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0143131990 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0143131991 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Print length  | 208 pages |
| Publication date  | November 14, 2017 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Classics |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ice (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
*by C***E on January 24, 2015*

I started reading this quite a while ago and ended up putting it aside because I couldn't "gel" with it. I came back to it two days ago and ended up "falling" into this haunting, desolate and surreal story. The picture of a bleak and fragmented apocalyptic world is vivid and uncompromising, but it is the relationship between the unstable narrator, the sinister "warden and the waif like and ethereal "girl" which is fascinating and compelling reading ..........and then there is the ice. The novel itself is written with a sense of urgency, pervading doom. I can't give this novel any higher accolades, except to say that 5 stars doesn't seem enough. A story that will haunt your peace of mind.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ There's no escape
*by M***M on June 27, 2018*

This is a dark tale of obsession told against the backdrop of war and the apocalyptic encroachment of snow and ice. We are not directly told the cause of these disasters, and it doesn't matter. Rather, the story is told through the determined, and sometimes hallucinatory eyes of a man on a fevered and quasi-erotic mission to possess the recalcitrant young woman of his obsession. It is here, amid a teetering psychology which mirrors that of the collapsing world order, that the meaningful action of this short novel takes place. Throughout Kavan masterfully conveys a feeling of dread and naked will amidst absurdity. This is not feel good story, yet the writing is intriguing enough to keep the reader engaged. It transcends categorisation. It is worth your time but, if you're like me, you'll be glad when it's over.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Three Stars
*by E***A on August 23, 2021*

“Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.” - Ice. An unnamed narrator and a man only 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 organization. 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. This was my classic pick for the month of August. In all honesty, I don’t remember where or how I found out about this book, but I am glad I did. In this story, we follow an unnamed narrator as he tries to track down and save this girl. He follows her throughout this snowy, apocalyptic, and war-torn world to try to free her from the warden while also trying to run from the ice that is taking over the Earth. Overall, this book was so strange. I think “hallucinatory” is a good way to describe it because the narrator is extremely unreliable, and sometimes it is hard to tell what is real or imagined. The writing and landscape in this novel are bleak, cold, and fairly to the point, although, the plot itself is quite sprawling. What I find more interesting is the author, Anna Kavan, and how her struggles in life (strained parental relationships, bad marriages, mental health, and heroin abuse) show up and inform her writing. I am definitely interested in reading more of her novels and short stories since I have heard many praises about them.

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