The Ice Age

by Drabble, Margaret

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Hard Cover. Margaret Drabble -- 1st Edition 1st Printing -- VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD -- copy of The Ice Age. 8vo. 295 pp. Stated First American Edition. Quarter-bound in brown cloth over blue boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. The tops of the leaves are stained dark blue. The top edges of the boards are very lightly sunned. There is some mild soiling to the fore-edges of the leaves. The hinges are tight and the textblock is clean. In a crisp, black, white, and blue dust-wrapper that retains the publisher's price of $8.95 on the upper right front flap. The dust-wrapper is toned, and a little crinkled at the extremities, and a tad scratched. A nice copy of Drabble's eighth book. Published by: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 First edition.

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.