LOVE AND ESPIONAGE IN THE FRENCH ALPS
Sheridan, Mary
Love And Espionage In The French Alps AVALANCHE, by Kay Boyle. Simon and Schuster. $2.50. Reviewed by Mary Sheridan KAY BOYLE has been accused of writing Avalanche too patly for the use of the...
...What do the quiet French do with the ham and eggs and cheese they hoard and take up the mountain...
...She is not welcomed...
...Reviewed by Mary Sheridan KAY BOYLE has been accused of writing Avalanche too patly for the use of the Saturday Evening Post and the movies, but no one has explained what is wrong with writing an exciting story that will please Post readers and movie goers as well as book readers...
...Is Bastineau, the mountain guide the girl had loved since she was eight ("/ brought you up, didn't 1? I poured my courage into your veins . . .") alive...
...Is it black market contraband...
...Suspense grows...
...Her Swiss train companion is looking for a Swiss boy's dead body in the mountains...
...An American girl who had grown up in a tiny French mountain village comes back, after the German occupation, to find her love, reported missing...
...It is a fine story, told with economy and grace...
...Avalanche is first-rate entertainment, and its virtues are not weakened because the Post ran part of it serially or because a movie will probably be made from it (it could be a eood movie...
...or is he...
...I don't like some of Kay Boyle's tricks with words, and her plot is on the lean side, but the people and background are convincing, and the love story has charm and power...
...Avalanche is a little novel of love and espionage in the French Alps...
Vol. 8 • March 1944 • No. 10
