From: brock@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Steve Brock)
Subject: Review of The Ice King by Robert Wintner (fiction)
Date: 10 Apr 1995 23:06:04 GMT

THE ICE KING by Robert Wintner.  Edward R. Smallwood, Inc., 4760 N.
Oracle Rd., Tucson, AZ 85705, (602) 292-0697, FAX: (602) 888-5766. 
228 pp., $20.00 cloth (1-881334-10-4), $12.00 paper (1-881334-11-
2).

                     Reviewed by Steve Brock

     Wintner's second novel involves a country boy thrust into
suburbia when his father passes away, leaving a void that can only
partially be filled by a collection of recollection.  Uprooted from
rural Kentucky to St. Louis, the small-framed boy lashes out at
anything that threatens his memories, which determine the course of
his development.  As a grown man, he looks back, in vignettes, at
his accumulated memories and finally understands how, if analyzed
with patience learned from the Ice King, they stop coming at you
all hot and cold, and only give you goose bumps.
     "The Ice King" is a story about balance, told by an author who
stays on his toes.  Grade: B.