Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition

Author:   Jonathan Lethem ,  Anna Kavan ,  Kate Zambreno ,  Nigel Patterson
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
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9781665233385


Publication Date:   27 February 2018
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive glass-girl with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden and save her before the ice closes all around. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of violence and trauma, a Kafkaesque literary dreamscape, and a brilliant allegory for its author's struggles with addiction--all crystallized in prose glittering as the piling snow. Kavan's 1967 novel has built a reputation as an extraordinary and innovative work of literature, garnering acclaim from China Mieville, Patti Smith, J. G. Ballard, Anais Nin, and Doris Lessing, among others. With echoes of dystopian classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise, Ice is a necessary and unforgettable addition to the canon of science fiction classics.

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Author:   Jonathan Lethem ,  Anna Kavan ,  Kate Zambreno ,  Nigel Patterson
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
Imprint:   Tantor Audio
Dimensions:   Width: 13.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   0.091kg
ISBN:  

9781665233385


ISBN 10:   1665233389
Publication Date:   27 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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A writer of intense imagination. . . . Slippery, bizarre, and meticulously written. . . . A gripping and uniquely strange work of science fiction.-- Kirkus Starred Review A writer of intense imagination...Slippery, bizarre, and meticulously written...A gripping and uniquely strange work of science fiction. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Anna Kavan created a uniquely fascinating fictional world. Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision. -- J.G. Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun Brooding, mysterious...a fascinating marriage of the Goth novel with science fiction. -- Publishers Weekly One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future...A half century after its first appearance, Kavan's fever dream of a novel is beginning to seem all too real. -- The New Yorker


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Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude, and Girl in Landscape. His fifth, Motherless Brooklyn, won the National Book Critic's Circle Award. His stories and essays have been collected in five volumes, and his writing has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. Anna Kavan (1901-1968) was born Helen Woods. She began her career writing under her married name Helen Ferguson, publishing six novels. It was only after she had a nervous breakdown that she became Anna Kavan, the protagonist of her 1930 novel Let Me Alone, with an outwardly different persona and a new literary style. Much of her life remains an enigma, but her talent was none the less remarkable, and her works have been compared to that of Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka. Kavan suffered periodic bouts of mental illness and long-term drug addiction-she had become addicted to heroin in the 1920s and continued to use it throughout her life-and these facets of her life feature prominently in her work. Her widely admired works include Asylum Piece, I Am Lazarus, and Julia and the Bazooka (published posthumously). She died in 1968 of heart failure, soon after the publication of her most celebrated work, Ice. Kate Zambreno is also the author of two novels and three books of nonfiction. She lives in New York and teaches writing at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. British audiobook narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Nigel Patterson has many credits as a stage, screen, and voice-over actor that influence his powerful characterization across a broad range of genres. AudioFile commented his keen ear and impeccable diction give insights into the prevailing attitudes of the period . . . his wholly credible characters stay with you long after you unplug. A graduate linguist of the University of Oxford, he is fluent in French and Spanish, has lived and worked in the U.S. for fifteen years, and knows many different accents and dialects from around the world.

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