The Ice People - Softcover
In this novel, Maggie Gee speculates about the survival of love between men and women in a frozen future world where children are rare, child-size robots run out of control, and homosexuality is the norm. Far into the the 21st century, civilization has broken down in the face of the deepening cold. An old man, Saul, lives in a disused airport with a gang of wild boys, who spare his life only because of his skills as a storyteller. Saul tells of his youth, days of fierce heat and dwindling fertility. Men and women live separately, the women cluster around the rare children, and men turn to each other or to robot "pets." But Saul is different—he falls in love with Sarah.
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Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner, The Flood, and The White Family which was short listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 (UK). She is the first female chair of the Royal society of Literature and lives in London.
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"Excellentintelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious,one of our best."--Fay Weldon "She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly: Martin Amis once said Gee was the only female author of his generation he would bother to read."--The Independent "Astonishingly multi-layered. It can be read as contemporary satire, as a terrifying view of a possible future, as an analysis of the widening gulf between men and women, but especially as a rattling good page-turning yarn."--George Melly
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- PublisherJohn Blake
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 186066153X
- ISBN 13 9781860661532
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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