MOUNT JOY

by Daisy Newman ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1968

Mount Joy is Maris' destination, the last stop on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela, where she'll find the ""meaning of life"" and maybe stop stewing about her virginity. Et voila. . . via some long mock-collegiate whines (""if she wasn't willing to go to his room when his room-mates were by prior arrangement elsewhere, how could she ask him to do her trig?"") and a longwinded lecture on medieval art and history at every stop from Paris to the end of the Spanish peninsula. Sex, of course, is ""the same everywhere"" (an American hedonist in Spain proves it) but ""there's more to being a woman than just that aspect."" Freshman tremors in sophomoric prose.

Pub Date: March 20, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Atheneum

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION