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 220
... Miss Holloway as they passed him . " Can't you get any more heat out of that boiler of yours on Monday ? " The caretaker burst into slow , incoherent abuse of his pay and superiors : he did not find speech easy and was content if his ...
... Miss Holloway as they passed him . " Can't you get any more heat out of that boiler of yours on Monday ? " The caretaker burst into slow , incoherent abuse of his pay and superiors : he did not find speech easy and was content if his ...
Page 221
... Miss Holloway was the one she would choose for such discussion . She was well- informed and unemotional . She would give an opinion quite uninfluenced by the fact that she was speaking to a person concerned . And Katherine felt this was ...
... Miss Holloway was the one she would choose for such discussion . She was well- informed and unemotional . She would give an opinion quite uninfluenced by the fact that she was speaking to a person concerned . And Katherine felt this was ...
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Philip Larkin. " I doubt it , " said Miss Holloway judicially . " Not unless you were really incompetent . You do your work all right , don't you ? " " Fairly ... Miss Holloway coldly , as the soldiers grabbed theatrically at them for 222.
Philip Larkin. " I doubt it , " said Miss Holloway judicially . " Not unless you were really incompetent . You do your work all right , don't you ? " " Fairly ... Miss Holloway coldly , as the soldiers grabbed theatrically at them for 222.
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