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 72
... dark and slight , with long eyelashes . The expres- sion on his face was evasive in the sense of not being fully captured by the camera . Rather to her surprise , she had shown it to nobody except her parents : in return , she had ...
... dark and slight , with long eyelashes . The expres- sion on his face was evasive in the sense of not being fully captured by the camera . Rather to her surprise , she had shown it to nobody except her parents : in return , she had ...
Page 75
... dark- blueish . But this was all in the future : at the moment his mature look was counterbalanced by the almost femi- nine gentleness of youth , smooth as the skin of a pear and as delicate as linen . She had been greatly afraid that ...
... dark- blueish . But this was all in the future : at the moment his mature look was counterbalanced by the almost femi- nine gentleness of youth , smooth as the skin of a pear and as delicate as linen . She had been greatly afraid that ...
Page 82
... dark brown skirt , white shirt and dark brown tie pinned with a small Olympic badge , and with her hair newly brushed and drawn back , she looked severe and foreign . They had gone into the lounge , leaving the door open so that she ...
... dark brown skirt , white shirt and dark brown tie pinned with a small Olympic badge , and with her hair newly brushed and drawn back , she looked severe and foreign . They had gone into the lounge , leaving the door open so that she ...
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