The Ice Age

Author: Margaret Drabble

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  • : $18.00 AUD
  • : 9780394417905
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  • : October 1977
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  • : Margaret Drabble
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  • : 295 p. ;
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Barcode 9780394417905
9780394417905

Local Description

1977. First edition, second printing. A near fine copy only marked by a small biro initial to the front free endpaper and light sunfading to the board edges. The d/w is unclipped and good with some repaired tears. Now in a protective cover.

Description

Anthony Keating is a middle-aged property developer in Yorkshire in the mid-seventies. Having escaped London s hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, he awaits the return of his lover Alison, who is trying to help her daughter incarcerated in a draconian Eastern bloc country. With debts spiralling out of control, Anthony realises that he and his friends are bound to the engine driving the society in which they live and that should it falter, so will they - The Ice Ageis a portrait of a Britain of boom and bust, and greed - and uncannily predicts the Thatcher years.