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 181
... everything else . It was as if the world had been turned round , like innumerable bits of reversible stage scenery . Quite frequently she felt moments of stark terror at the strangeness of things , at the way all had collapsed ...
... everything else . It was as if the world had been turned round , like innumerable bits of reversible stage scenery . Quite frequently she felt moments of stark terror at the strangeness of things , at the way all had collapsed ...
Page 182
... everything she possessed was a reference back to the days before she left home : her leather motoring - coat , for instance , was a relic of her student days . There had been a fad about dressing in accordance with the machine - age ...
... everything she possessed was a reference back to the days before she left home : her leather motoring - coat , for instance , was a relic of her student days . There had been a fad about dressing in accordance with the machine - age ...
Page 204
... everything was becoming so confused . It was three and a half hours after midday : Robin might have come and gone , because of her foolishness in leaving him no message . And what in the world had Miss Feather meant by saying that about ...
... everything was becoming so confused . It was three and a half hours after midday : Robin might have come and gone , because of her foolishness in leaving him no message . And what in the world had Miss Feather meant by saying that about ...
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