Ballard, Anaïs Nin, and Doris Lessing, among others. Kavan’s 1967 novel has built a reputation as an extraordinary and innovative work of literature, garnering acclaim from China Miéville, Patti Smith, J. As part of the new and improved Cased Classics, this edition features a false die cutting of a triangle on the dust jacket, while printed on the cover board is the striking artwork of contemporary artist Naomi Frears. Ice is hailed as classic of science fiction and a definitive work of the slipstream genre. As a terrifying wall of ice continues its incursion, freezing everything in its path, it seems that only the white-haired woman is truly resigned to the fate of the world. In a land devastated by war, a nameless narrator pursues an elusive white-haired woman in the clutches of a government official known only as "The Warden." Neither will giver her up, but a freak ecological apocalypse is indifferent to their rival claims. A half century after its first appearance, Kavan’s fever dream of a novel is beginning to seem all too real." -The New Yorker "One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future. Ice by Anna Kavan / ISBN 9780720620139 / 192-page hardcover, from the Peter Owen Cased Classics series, published in 2021
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