The Ice Age
The Ice Age
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Having escaped London's hustle-bustle and survived a heart attack aged just thirty eight, Anthony awaits the return of his lover Alison, who is trying to help her daughter incarcerated in a draconian Eastern bloc country. This work is a portrait of a Britain of boom and bust, and greed - and it uncannily predicts the Thatcher years.
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The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
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 Age is a portrait of a Britain of boom and bust, and greed - and uncannily predicts the Thatcher years.
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at Cambridge. She was awarded a CBE in 1980. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989), The Gales of Victory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2000); The Seven Sisters (2002) and The Red Queen (2004) all of which are published by Penguin. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London W10.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140048049 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140048049 |
| Title | The Ice Age |
| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1979-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |