The Ice Age
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Britain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by stagnation, disillusionment, and economic collapse — and Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age captures this paralysis with unsparing precision through the lives of a cast of characters each trapped in their own private freezing. At the novel's centre stands Anthony Keating, a former BBC producer turned property developer, now recovering from a heart attack in a crumbling country house, his ambitions and certainties in ruins around him — a figure who embodies the broader moral and financial reckoning of an entire generation. Drabble constructs her narrative as a panoramic social portrait, weaving together interlocking stories of loss, imprisonment, and thwarted desire to argue that Britain itself has entered a kind of spiritual ice age. Her prose is cool, analytical, and quietly devastating, drawing on the traditions of the great Victorian social novelists whilst remaining urgently contemporary. Published in 1977, the novel stands as one of the defining works of post-war British fiction, a searing diagnosis of a society in decline that leaves the reader wondering whether the thaw will ever come.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Britain in the 1970s is a nation gripped by stagnation, disillusionment, and economic collapse — and Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age captures this paralysis with unsparing precision through the lives of a cast of characters each trapped in their own private freezing. At the novel's centre stands Anthony Keating, a former BBC producer turned property developer, now recovering from a heart attack in a crumbling country house, his ambitions and certainties in ruins around him — a figure who embodies the broader moral and financial reckoning of an entire generation. Drabble constructs her narrative as a panoramic social portrait, weaving together interlocking stories of loss, imprisonment, and thwarted desire to argue that Britain itself has entered a kind of spiritual ice age. Her prose is cool, analytical, and quietly devastating, drawing on the traditions of the great Victorian social novelists whilst remaining urgently contemporary. Published in 1977, the novel stands as one of the defining works of post-war British fiction, a searing diagnosis of a society in decline that leaves the reader wondering whether the thaw will ever come.