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The Ice Harvest (novel)

The Ice Harvest
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2000 Picador hardcover edition cover
AuthorScott Phillips
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, Mystery
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
October 2000
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages224 pp
ISBN0-345-44018-8
OCLC45125622
813/.6 21
LC ClassPS3566.H515 I25 2000
Followed byThe Walkaway 

The Ice Harvest is the debut novel of Scott Phillips. The story, set in 1979, was published to wide acclaim in 2000.

Critical reception

Publishers Weekly called the book a "darkly delicious debut comic thriller."[1] The New York Times called it "bitterly funny," writing that the crime genre "has found a sterling new champion in Phillips."[2]

Awards and nominations

  • Silver Medal - First Work of Fiction, by the California Book Awards (for books published in 2000).
  • It was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2001.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

It was adapted into a film of the same name in 2005.

Release details

References

  1. ^ "The Ice Harvest". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Crime". archive.nytimes.com.


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