Fortunately, Zoe is trapped in a lucky pocket of air and Jake manages to free her from her precarious position upside-down. Snow and silence the complete arrest of life a rehearsal for and a pre-echo of death.” It’s a crucial moment in Zoe’s life-perhaps the most important of her entire life, as half the mountain soon comes hurtling down upon them both. “If there are few moments in life that come as clear and as pure as ice, when the mountain breathed back at her, Zoe knew she had trapped one such moment and it could never be taken away,” Joyce writes. A British married couple, Jake and Zoe, are enjoying the thrills and arresting scenery of one of the world’s great ski runs. It begins, appropriately enough, in the bitter cold of the mountains near Chamonix, France, and the chill never really goes away throughout the course of the novel. Two young lovers find themselves utterly alone after a skiing accident in the French Alps.īest known in his native England for erudite fantasy, Joyce ( How to Make Friends with Demons, 2009, etc.) spins a story of devotion that is equal parts romance and nightmare.
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