'One of the wittiest books about family life ever written' Guardian
'A hilarious, remarkable and beautiful book' Jeffrey Eugenides
'A blackly funny and beautifully written novel' Sunday Times
Suburban New England, and the Hood family are about to wish they'd stayed home....
1973 - 'The last year of the sixties' as the author describes it. Amidst the worst storm for 30 years the local families gather for a party - the highlight of which is the wife-swapping 'key game' - and for two couples this supposedly harmless piece of liberal-minded entertainment spells permanent disaster.
Astutely acerbic, painfully funny, The Ice Storm is an astonishing novel of the decade that taste forgot.
- ISBN10 0349110301
- ISBN13 9780349110301
- Publish Date 5 February 1998 (first published 1 May 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Abacus
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English