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The Ice Age by Drabble, Margaret
- Bookseller: abccbooks.com
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: FG0H252
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0394417909
- ISBN 13: 9780394417905
- Publisher: Knopf, 1977
- Date published: 1977
- Pages: 295
Description
Knopf, 1977. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Fourth Printing. Price intact. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN: 0-394-41790-9. 292pp..One of the best English novelists writing today, says the NY Times Book Review, and this book is one of the best of her works..a constellation of English lives, each one at a crucial point of change..includes an interesting actress experimenting with a new romantic relationship; her lover, leaving a BBC job and entering high finance, and others. A fine read.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
Book summary
Set against what Drabble sees as the spiritual wasteland of British life in the mid-1970s, this is the story of a television producer fighting off ennui who goes into real estate speculation and faces financial ruin. His long-time lover Alison, after a life of devotion to her cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter, finds she no longer has a role. The story is presented in first-person narratives alternating with vignettes of everyday life of the period.
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