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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... street , avoiding the traffic , and a brewer's wagon drawn by two dray - horses that tossed plumes of breath into the cold air amid a jingling of medallions . Merion Street was a narrow connection between one of the streets leading from ...
... street , avoiding the traffic , and a brewer's wagon drawn by two dray - horses that tossed plumes of breath into the cold air amid a jingling of medallions . Merion Street was a narrow connection between one of the streets leading from ...
Page 179
... street — it was an hour after twelve and he might well be on his way to her address - she would probably not know him . He would be in officer's uniform , deep - voiced , full - grown . She stopped on the pavement opposite Merion Street ...
... street — it was an hour after twelve and he might well be on his way to her address - she would probably not know him . He would be in officer's uniform , deep - voiced , full - grown . She stopped on the pavement opposite Merion Street ...
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... Street . There were a few people huddled in doorways , or walking from cinemas , but the wide central streets were ... Merion Street , and she knew it blindfold , therefore did not use a torch : only now and again she stretched out her ...
... Street . There were a few people huddled in doorways , or walking from cinemas , but the wide central streets were ... Merion Street , and she knew it blindfold , therefore did not use a torch : only now and again she stretched out her ...
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