The Ice People

Author:   Maggie Gee
Publisher:   Saqi Books
ISBN:  

9781846590382


Pages:   316
Publication Date:   15 May 2008
Format:   Paperback
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It's the middle of the 21st century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, watching their world freeze over, try to move south towards the equator. 'Set in the near future, it imagines not a globally warmed world, but an earth slowly returning to aridity and cold. A universal freeze has also descended upon relationships between men and women, who live in morbid segregation, with feathered robots as sexual partners. In a neat reversal of First World-Third World assumptions, Africa's relative warmth offers a last hope to northerly survivors as the novel charts one man's struggle to rescue his alienated son and bring him to where the sun shines' - Rose Tremain.

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Author:   Maggie Gee
Publisher:   Saqi Books
Imprint:   Telegram Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9781846590382


ISBN 10:   1846590388
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   15 May 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS


'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup; 'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon; 'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman; 'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain; 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly; 'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times; 'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent; 'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS


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Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner and The Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.

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