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Nightmares super-imposed upon a bitter and terrifying reality, in which the world is about to be obliterated by rapid-onset ice age...or so it seems. Someone has accidentally set off some kind of extinction level event that involves glaciers, but also possibly mutants and monsters. Ultimately, the tale of a stalker, successful, against a backdrop of immediate global annihilation? Interesting read, all in all. A nightmarish unreality to it all; kind of gets into your head. Brrrrr! A bit creepy, quite surreal. Not overly long. Worth reading.


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Mysterious, compelling, beautiful and surprising over and over and over
This book was originally classified as science fiction, but it hardly seems so today when rapid ecological decline is a fact, and democratic institutions have turned sinister and controlling. The novel is complex and open to interpretation. I find it to be almost unbearably brutal with themes of male dominance expressed in the need to control and destroy. The brutality is slightly tempered by symbolic passages that are often of great beauty. Anna Kavan is a master of English prose and this book requires close reading. She was a great favorite of Doris Lessing who championed her work and argued that Kavan was a writer of importance and had much to offer contemporary readers. She deserves more readers. You should be one of them.
It epitomized the loneliness of being an individual in a thought provoking way.
In as much a we all want to be a part of something other than ourselves, we are all trapped in our own minds.
Wonderfully surrealistic in the strange loopy plot, but at the same time disturbingly realistic in describing a worldwide cataclysm that really could happen and also how political potentates really operate.
This is a dark tale of obsession told against the backdrop of war and the apocalyptic encroachment of snow and ice. We are not directly told the cause of these disasters, and it doesn't matter. Rather, the story is told through the determined, and sometimes hallucinatory eyes of a man on a fevered and quasi-erotic mission to possess the recalcitrant young woman of his obsession. It is here, amid a teetering psychology which mirrors that of the collapsing world order, that the meaningful action of this short novel takes place.

Throughout Kavan masterfully conveys a feeling of dread and naked will amidst absurdity. This is not feel good story, yet the writing is intriguing enough to keep the reader engaged. It transcends categorisation. It is worth your time but, if you're like me, you'll be glad when it's over.
Note This review contains spoilers.

The good
Ice by Anna Kavan is written in a superb style that makes virtually any New York Times bestseller look like a mediocre freshman paper. This is the only reason I gave the book two stars.

The bad
The book is rife with unnecessary descriptions and distractions that can be quite tedious. The narration can be confusing because the protagonist daydreams, and his visions are weaved into the storyline in a stream-of- consciousness style. At times, the reader is left wondering whether certain events are actually happening or being imagined. The characters are unreal and uninteresting. The protagonist is torn apart by inexplicable passions. There's an annoying warden who keeps popping up randomly throughout the book. It's unclear what it all means.

The ugly
The storyline is at best flimsy and at worst nonexistent. The title and the beginning of the book are misleading in that they imply it’s about an ice storm of cataclysmic proportions. However, the bulk of the book is about a noble-hearted man looking for a frail and miserable woman who had escaped from a very difficult marriage. The story drags on for too many pages without much happening and the impending ice storm never materializes. The protagonist simply says in the end of the final chapter that he “knew there was no escape from the ice.” What a bummer! If you’re expecting a suspenseful and exciting read about a devastating natural disaster or a science fiction thriller, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
I started reading this quite a while ago and ended up putting it aside because I couldn't "gel" with it. I came back to it two days ago and ended up "falling" into this haunting, desolate and surreal story. The picture of a bleak and fragmented apocalyptic world is vivid and uncompromising, but it is the relationship between the unstable narrator, the sinister "warden and the waif like and ethereal "girl" which is fascinating and compelling reading ..........and then there is the ice.

The novel itself is written with a sense of urgency, pervading doom. I can't give this novel any higher accolades, except to say that 5 stars doesn't seem enough. A story that will haunt your peace of mind.
Nightmares super-imposed upon a bitter and terrifying reality, in which the world is about to be obliterated by rapid-onset ice age...or so it seems. Someone has accidentally set off some kind of extinction level event that involves glaciers, but also possibly mutants and monsters. Ultimately, the tale of a stalker, successful, against a backdrop of immediate global annihilation? Interesting read, all in all. A nightmarish unreality to it all; kind of gets into your head. Brrrrr! A bit creepy, quite surreal. Not overly long. Worth reading.