Ice
| Title | Ice |
| Year for Search | 1967 |
| Authors | [Woods], [Helen Emily](1901-68) |
| Tertiary Authors | Kavan, Anna [pseud.] |
| Date Published | 1967 |
| Publisher | Peter Owen |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age. Surrealistic novel in which the unnamed narrator searches through the ice fields for a woman held captive by a man known as the Warden. The ice is also generally interpreted as a metaphor for the author’s addition to heroin. The English female author was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life and changed her name legally. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. London: Picador, 1970; London: Peter Owen, 1997; London: Peter Owen, 2006 with a foreword by Christopher Priest (unpaged); in My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Ed. Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (London: Picador, 1990), 199-318; and as The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2017, with a “Foreword” by Jonathan Lethem (vii-x) and an “Afterword” by Kate Zambreno (183-93). |
| Pseudonym | Anna Kavan [pseud.] |
| Holding Institutions | L, Merril |
| Author Note | The English female author (1901-68) was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond. |
| Full Text | 1967 [Woods, Helen Emily] (1901-68). Ice. London: Peter Owen. By Anna Kavan [pseud.]. Rpt. London: Picador, 1970; London: Peter Owen, 1997; London: Peter Owen, 2006 with a "Foreword" by Christopher Priest (unpaged); and as The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2017, with a “Foreword” by Jonathan Lethem (vii-x) and an “Afterword” by Kate Zambreno (183-93)in My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Ed. Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (London: Picador, 1990), 199-318. L, Merril Authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age. Surrealistic novel in which the unnamed narrator searches through the ice fields for a woman held captive by a man known as the Warden. The ice is also generally interpreted as a metaphor for the author’s addition to heroin. The English female author was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life and changed her name legally. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond. |
