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Maggie Gee
ISBN: 9781846590382
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Telegram Books
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It's the middle of the 21st century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, watching their world freeze over, try to move south towards the equator.
'Set in the near future, it imagines not a globally warmed world, but an earth slowly returning to aridity and cold. A universal freeze has also descended upon relationships between men and women, who live in morbid segregation, with feathered robots as sexual partners. In a neat reversal of First World-Third World assumptions, Africa's relative warmth offers a last hope to northerly survivors as the novel charts one man's struggle to rescue his alienated son and bring him to where the sun shines' - Rose Tremain.
| ISBN | 1846590388 | | Pages | 316 | | ISBN13 | 9781846590382
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Telegram Books | | Weight (grammes) | 313 | | Imprint | Telegram Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Publication date | 15 May 2008 | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Library of Congress | PR6057 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS  Be the first to write a customer review
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