Ice is one of the most terrifying postulations of the end of the world that I have come across (.) It is melodramatic, but panic and the cold fill every page.' - Sarah Curtis, The Times 'Anna Kavan has an outstanding gift for evoking an atmosphere.Ice is hardly a satisfactory novel, but many of the distressing images and the scenes of destruction have a curious disordered power and beauty.' - Julian Symons, Sunday Times 'The book's scenes are sometimes deliberately, sometimes perhaps involuntarily disconnected, as Miss Kavan relates the break-up of the world to the disintegration of the personality.(.) But this Ice is not psychological ice, or metaphysical ice, here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner's.' - Doris Lessing, The Independent 'However we class the book, there is nothing else like it.It's strange, unsettling and harsh, but that's why it's ideal.' - Hannah Freeman, The Guardian It's not heartwarming, it doesn't have a single picturesque landscape or sleigh bell in it. This isn't a plot spoiler in fact, it's almost impossible to give a spoiler to this book. 'It's not many pages into the book that we realise that this isn't a story about characters negotiating a war-torn country, but rather about the narrator fighting his paranoid, panic-stricken mind as it threatens to overcome him.

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Ice by anna kavan