Ice - Anna Kavan Moomin an amnesiac discovers that she

an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire

Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms

It is at once a fable

among the Surrealist ex-pats Leonora Carrington

“The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes

Ice - Anna Kavan Moomin an amnesiac discovers that sheIce by Anna Kavan ISBN 9780143131991 208 page paperback from Penguin Classics *** A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem "One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half century after its first appearance, Kavans fever dream of a novel is beginning to seem all too real." The New Yorker In a