The Emperor of Ice Cream

Novel by Brian Moore

Blurb

The Emperor of Ice-Cream is a 1965 coming-of-age novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in Belfast during the Second World War, the book tells the story of 17-year-old Gavin Burke, from a Nationalist Catholic family, who joins the Air Raid Precautions over his father's objections. Based in part on Moore's own wartime experiences, he described it as the most autobiographical of his novels.Its title is taken from Wallace Stevens' poem "The Emperor of Ice-Cream".