Title: Ice
First published: 1967
Description: Anna Kavan's books have established her reputation as one of the most talented and original contemporary writers - comparable in stature to Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes.

A man's search for an elusive girl takes place against a backdrop of nuclear war resulting in total destruction by walls of ice that overrun the world. Imaginative descriptions of a terrifying dreamlike hunt combine with writing of distinction to form an unusual book. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1967).
Subjects: Psychological fiction, Abusive Men, Science Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, dystopian, Nuclear warfare, Fiction, End of the world, Recluses, Glacial epoch
Places: mountain, town, High House
People: girl, husband, warden
LC classification: PR6009 D53 I3