Ice Cream
  • Published:
    Jun-2001
  • Formats:
    Print / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    218
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With Ice Cream, her first story collection published in the United States, award-winning New York Times notable author of The Siege and A Spell of Winter, Helen Dunmore confirms her status as a master of the shorter form (The Sunday Telegraph). In each taut, agile tale, characters negotiate situations that are often both mundane and bizarre: a cafeteria cook confronts her Polish pen pal; a divorced mother gains insight from a parking meter; a beautiful, thin, and famous woman succumbs to the lure of comfort food. In several stories a soulful, curious woman named Ulli takes up residence in the reader's imagination--stumbling across a strange collector of religious icons, contemplating a youthful pregnancy, and remembering a troubled lover. Employing a poet's ear for the concise and the novelist's ambition of scope, Dunmore captures in Ice Cream how a single moment can change the course of a life-- these stories are] rich with regret, turmoil, and strained optimism (Entertainment Weekly)
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-2001
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140286365
    • ISBN13: 9780140286366
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    • Mar-2004
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 080214053X
    • ISBN13: 9780802140531
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    • Jan-2003
    • Grove Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0802117333
    • ISBN13: 9780802117335
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    • Jan-2003
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0753109891
    • ISBN13: 9780753109892
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    • Sep-2003
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0753122421
    • ISBN13: 9780753122426



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