Dec 16, 2009
The only fantasy among British author Anna Kavans twelve novels, Ice was the last work published before her death from a heroin overdose. Ice reflects a fragmented personality, hallucinating under the drugs thrall, yet the writing is fully in control, marked by pictorial vividness and lyrical beauty, as scenes dissolve between realism and trance.
The story opens with the nameless narrator driving, lost, along a dark road in his own country. A garage attendant warns of treacherous icing. The narrator, a writer interested in geographical locales, has...
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