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 68
... letter when he inno- cently began a paragraph " The other day I cycled to " they shrieked with laughter . But the joke passed ; other correspondents were far more interesting , and soon no - one bothered about her letters from England ...
... letter when he inno- cently began a paragraph " The other day I cycled to " they shrieked with laughter . But the joke passed ; other correspondents were far more interesting , and soon no - one bothered about her letters from England ...
Page 187
... letter . Was it from Mr. Anstey ? Strange : she thought she knew his writing well enough , but once she examined it closely half a dozen doubtful instances occurred to her . She grew less confident as she continued to inspect it . If it ...
... letter . Was it from Mr. Anstey ? Strange : she thought she knew his writing well enough , but once she examined it closely half a dozen doubtful instances occurred to her . She grew less confident as she continued to inspect it . If it ...
Page 189
... letter . No - one would write so guardedly unless their feelings were involved . But him ! Had he any feelings ? It was absurd . Yet she was not amused . She read through it again . If only it had been a simple , blurting letter , she ...
... letter . No - one would write so guardedly unless their feelings were involved . But him ! Had he any feelings ? It was absurd . Yet she was not amused . She read through it again . If only it had been a simple , blurting letter , she ...
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