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 100
... began to panic . Robin won the first game , and the second , and also the third . The fourth he allowed palpably though without com- ment to go to her , presumably to avoid the embarrassment of a love - set . This annoyed her , and she ...
... began to panic . Robin won the first game , and the second , and also the third . The fourth he allowed palpably though without com- ment to go to her , presumably to avoid the embarrassment of a love - set . This annoyed her , and she ...
Page 139
... began the rounds of the graceful triangles , squares and circles of the college buildings , he began to tell of what she saw . Though he knew probably no more than one - fiftieth of what a standard guidebook contained , it was enough to ...
... began the rounds of the graceful triangles , squares and circles of the college buildings , he began to tell of what she saw . Though he knew probably no more than one - fiftieth of what a standard guidebook contained , it was enough to ...
Page 148
... began nibbling it . " That does not matter - if-— He should have told me ! It was wrong of him — and you too . " " Don't worry . I was a far more appreciative audience than he was . " " I wanted no audiences ! " Jane looked at her ...
... began nibbling it . " That does not matter - if-— He should have told me ! It was wrong of him — and you too . " " Don't worry . I was a far more appreciative audience than he was . " " I wanted no audiences ! " Jane looked at her ...
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