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Avalanche

Avalanche

by Kay Boyle

Spies
4.0
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About this book

From My Reader's Block: It (the novel)follows Fenton Ravel, a French-American young woman who has returned to France from America. She is in search of answers about the disappearance of Bastineau, a man she grew up with and whom she grew to love. It is said that Bastineau died in an avalanche, along with two men he was guiding in the French Alps, but Fenton refuses to believe that he is dead. As she makes her way to the mountains where she grew up, she doesn't realize that there is someone else on the darkened train who also searches for Bastineau and the secrets his disappearance hides. The locals are suspicious of her, in part because she is viewed as having abandoned France (for America) when war was rumbling on the horizon. Now that she's back, she is seen in the company men suspected of being spies and the villagers are fearful that the secret work of the resistance will be revealed--either deliberately or inadvertently by her return.Will she be able to help the man she loves...or will she unknowingly lead the enemy to him?

Themes & subjects

Spies

Setting

FranceWWII

About the author

Kay Boyle

19 February 1902 – 27 December 1992

Author

Kay Boyle

Pages

230

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

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