The Ice Age - Softcover

Drabble, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140048049 ISBN 13: 9780140048049

Publisher: Penguin, 1979

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140048049
• ISBN 13: 9780140048049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288