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 67
... listened to the boys ' letters being read aloud at sporadic intervals her alarm returned : she felt herself quite incapable of keeping her end up in this kind of exchange . In the hilarious search for double meanings she sounded as ...
... listened to the boys ' letters being read aloud at sporadic intervals her alarm returned : she felt herself quite incapable of keeping her end up in this kind of exchange . In the hilarious search for double meanings she sounded as ...
Page 84
... listened , but could hear nothing so shut the case with a sharp click . The door swung inwards silently , and in the dusk Katherine could see a girl standing on the threshold . " Oh , " she said . The girl looked at her . She wore a ...
... listened , but could hear nothing so shut the case with a sharp click . The door swung inwards silently , and in the dusk Katherine could see a girl standing on the threshold . " Oh , " she said . The girl looked at her . She wore a ...
Page 198
... listened to what she was saying , she would have visualized life and happiness like ration tokens , that once spent are never recovered , and are allotted equally to everyone . " When you make kindness a duty , everybody resents it ...
... listened to what she was saying , she would have visualized life and happiness like ration tokens , that once spent are never recovered , and are allotted equally to everyone . " When you make kindness a duty , everybody resents it ...
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