A Girl in WinterA Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine LInd, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart. |
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Page 59
... asked him back , the next year . ' " " " Oh , yes . Yes , I did , but he couldn't come . I've for- gotten why - he was ill , I think . And by that time we'd more or less stopped writing . " " What a shame . " " Oh , not really . We were ...
... asked him back , the next year . ' " " " Oh , yes . Yes , I did , but he couldn't come . I've for- gotten why - he was ill , I think . And by that time we'd more or less stopped writing . " " What a shame . " " Oh , not really . We were ...
Page 104
... asked her daughter discreetly to act as a chaperon . This evaded the weak point of her other idea , which was that in her opinion Jane would not give two hoots for anything Robin asked her to do . And it was much more flattering . It ...
... asked her daughter discreetly to act as a chaperon . This evaded the weak point of her other idea , which was that in her opinion Jane would not give two hoots for anything Robin asked her to do . And it was much more flattering . It ...
Page 146
... asked you because I made him ? ” Katherine stared at her . She repeated the sentence to herself several times , wondering if she had failed to shake out the right meaning . " What do you mean ? ” " Robin invited you because I asked him ...
... asked you because I made him ? ” Katherine stared at her . She repeated the sentence to herself several times , wondering if she had failed to shake out the right meaning . " What do you mean ? ” " Robin invited you because I asked him ...
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