00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861985940 Buklod 20150416083004.0 g||| | || || ta 150416s1977 nyu r |||| u|eng d 0445043008 (iLib)UPBAG-00016807855 OCLCO BAG rda eng PR 6054 R25 I23 1977 Drabble, Margaret 1939- author. The ice age Margaret Drabble. New York Popular Library 1977. 320 pages 18 cm. A constellation of lives in the hard-pressed England of the sixties and seventies, each at a crucial point of change. At the center: an energetic, interesting woman at midlife, a pretty ex-actress anxiously caring for her family while experimenting inside a new, generous, romantic relationship; and her lover, a handsome man of tact and feeling, dissatisfied with his past, leaving his respectable BBC job and entering the excitements and corruptions of high (chancy) finance. Around them, others who represent facets of their future: a real estate tycoon enmeshed in a tricky, ambitious enterprise that has catastrophically backfired; a young rogue of a girl poised between the joys of being kept by an adventurer and a longing for respectable marriage; and a troubled teenager testing her mother's love while involved in a terrifying imbroglio behind the Iron Curtain. -- Adapted from www.redmood.com. England Social life and customs 1945- Fiction. England Fiction. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 6054 R25 I23 1977 Book