The Ice Age
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Britain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by economic malaise, political disillusionment, and a creeping sense of paralysis — and into this bleak landscape steps Anthony Watkins, a former property developer whose fortunes, like those of his country, have spectacularly collapsed. The Ice Age chronicles the interlocking lives of a cast of characters navigating personal and national crisis with equal measures of desperation and dark humour, as Margaret Drabble constructs a searing portrait of a society in freefall. Drabble's prose is precise yet richly textured, holding individual ambition and collective failure in uncomfortable tension throughout. She argues, with quiet ferocity, that the personal and the political are inseparable — that the frost settling over England's economic and moral landscape is felt most keenly in the private rooms and fractured relationships of ordinary lives. One of the defining British novels of its era, The Ice Age remains a prescient and haunting meditation on decline, resilience, and the uneasy question of what, if anything, lies on the other side of a thaw.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Britain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by economic malaise, political disillusionment, and a creeping sense of paralysis — and into this bleak landscape steps Anthony Watkins, a former property developer whose fortunes, like those of his country, have spectacularly collapsed. The Ice Age chronicles the interlocking lives of a cast of characters navigating personal and national crisis with equal measures of desperation and dark humour, as Margaret Drabble constructs a searing portrait of a society in freefall. Drabble's prose is precise yet richly textured, holding individual ambition and collective failure in uncomfortable tension throughout. She argues, with quiet ferocity, that the personal and the political are inseparable — that the frost settling over England's economic and moral landscape is felt most keenly in the private rooms and fractured relationships of ordinary lives. One of the defining British novels of its era, The Ice Age remains a prescient and haunting meditation on decline, resilience, and the uneasy question of what, if anything, lies on the other side of a thaw.