Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition, (Paperback)

from proustitute

Kavan creates a nightmare world that is also reality, seamlessly shifting between a global crisis to dream fugues, from a surreal search across borders that are never defined to a man's realization that the boundaries of his identity are similarly fragile. The prose is unrivaled: it flows in and ...

from Michael.Xolotl

When I was a kid I sometimes had the sudden fear that I could be trapped by or overwhelmed by something, usually something beautiful, and that's what Ice reminded me of, like holding a pale blue multifaceted ball up to the heavy sunlight and feeling as though I might unravel into the flat refract...

from baswood

“Numerous potential meanings of the film's events have been put forward: that it is a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth; that it represents the relationship between patient and psychoanalyst; that it all takes place in the woman's mind; that it all takes place in the man's mind, and depict...

from icolford

This mesmerizing novel was the last of Anna Kavan's works to be published in her lifetime. Ice is set in a world threated with annihilation through war and an encroaching natural cataclysm: the world is growing colder and will soon be engulfed in ice. Kavan's unnamed narrator travels from place t...

from beentsy

I just really don't know if I loved this or if I hated it. Parts of it were so amazing and just sang to me but parts of it made me cringe and look away. Either way, love or hate, it was beautifully written and so compelling. I guess after all is said and done, I did love it.