THE DEEP-FREEZE GIRLS

by Eva Sefago ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 7, 1964

While most novels concerned with girls's boarding schools attempt an atmosphere of sexual awakening, here is sexual insomnia. The scene is the Villa Joyeuse, a Swiss finishing school. The title implies that select virgins are being kept on ice until they are old enough to be unleashed on society. However, the author creates situations that make the school an overheated sexual forcing shed. Penny, Vanessa and Chouchou are seniors who share the Blue Room. They play a game called Chichiki. The object is to win points for everything from being accosted by a man to the time when propositions. The novel is a series of anecdotes that proceed from the attempts of the roommates to play the game. The businesslike cynicism of the students in the ssion Flower Hotel allowed that book to achieve its light comic intent. Mrs. Defago, unfortunately, has equipped her girls with all the finer feeling as well as libido, thus ruining the possibility of laughter while failing at the level of significance. She invades the minds of her characters without discrimination and their thoughts come out, not in finished accents, but in the unedifying tones of True Confessions - i.e., Chouchou's brush with innocent love; ""How can one know what's wrong and what isn't? When Marco kissed me I felt happy and content. Was that wrong?"" Hollywood just might launch this with a raft of technicolor starlets, and the publishers plan to spend a bit to hawk it like Good Humor.

Pub Date: Aug. 7, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Coward-McCann

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1964

Categories: FICTION