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 56
... sorry . " So I wrote , just to say the usual things . " " Were they friends of your family , then ? " " Oh no . That was the queer thing about it . I got to know them when I was at school . " Since this seemed to interest Miss Green ...
... sorry . " So I wrote , just to say the usual things . " " Were they friends of your family , then ? " " Oh no . That was the queer thing about it . I got to know them when I was at school . " Since this seemed to interest Miss Green ...
Page 146
... sorry to have plagued you , " Jane went on after a moment . " I'd no idea I was turning into a maiden aunt already . Thank you for telling me . ' " I didn't mean that ! " said Katherine . " I'm certain that I don't want to be with Robin ...
... sorry to have plagued you , " Jane went on after a moment . " I'd no idea I was turning into a maiden aunt already . Thank you for telling me . ' " I didn't mean that ! " said Katherine . " I'm certain that I don't want to be with Robin ...
Page 232
... sorry for you , " he said . " You've had a rotten time . " He smiled at her in a way that would have been charm- ing but for the shadows round his eyes and nostrils . " You're behaving very strangely , " she said , with amuse- ment ...
... sorry for you , " he said . " You've had a rotten time . " He smiled at her in a way that would have been charm- ing but for the shadows round his eyes and nostrils . " You're behaving very strangely , " she said , with amuse- ment ...
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