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A review by olivera420
Ice by Anna Kavan
5.0
This book is a trip.
It's following an abusive, mentally unstable, unreliable narrator who goes in and out of hallucinatory episodes and might have a multiple personality disorder? From what I understand this book is about everything from drug addiction and hallucinations to sexual assault and how the abuser justifies it in their head and also about climate catastrophe brought on by some nuclear war (an allusion to the Cold War?) and at times it's almost impossible to separate the events that actually happened from the things the narrator imagines. The descriptions of the ice were amazing, but some parts did get repetitive, especially the way the girl is described. I need to reread.
It's following an abusive, mentally unstable, unreliable narrator who goes in and out of hallucinatory episodes and might have a multiple personality disorder? From what I understand this book is about everything from drug addiction and hallucinations to sexual assault and how the abuser justifies it in their head and also about climate catastrophe brought on by some nuclear war (an allusion to the Cold War?) and at times it's almost impossible to separate the events that actually happened from the things the narrator imagines. The descriptions of the ice were amazing, but some parts did get repetitive, especially the way the girl is described. I need to reread.