· Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically "high degree of intelligence and irony" (The New Yorker). Related collections and www.doorway.ru Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically "high degree of intelligence and irony" (The New Yorker)/5(8). Something destructive has happened to noble England, Margaret Drabble enlightens us in the two epigraphs that open "The Ice Age." Sure enough, the novel's main character finds himself enmeshed in an apocalyptic tale. "It was as though he had strayed into some charged field, where death and disaster became commonplace."/5(8).
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Something destructive has happened to noble England, Margaret Drabble enlightens us in the two epigraphs that open "The Ice Age." Sure enough, the novel's main character finds himself enmeshed in an apocalyptic tale. "It was as though he had strayed into some charged field, where death and disaster became commonplace.". THE ICE AGE. by Margaret Drabble ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, What it's like for illusion to leave an entire people--and in the doing, Drabble gives us the real thing here: a social novel thick with the common changes, failures, and interferences of modern citizenship. The ""ice age"" that has indeed fallen on Britain chills less the hearts than the emotional musculature of this book's characters: suddenly they have less flexibility. Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and the political turmoil that led England to Margaret Thatcher, The Ice Age tells the story of three people desperately seeking firm ground amidst chaos with Margaret Drabble’s characteristically "high degree of intelligence and irony" (The New Yorker).
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