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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... felt . That night she had been too excited to sleep , and had smoked many cigarettes , finally , after mid- night , starting to dust her room and set it to order , half for something to do and half because she felt the need to make some ...
... felt . That night she had been too excited to sleep , and had smoked many cigarettes , finally , after mid- night , starting to dust her room and set it to order , half for something to do and half because she felt the need to make some ...
Page 101
... felt like a servant . " Staying here , are we ? " he said , beginning to screw his racquet into its press . Her heart sank . She did not want to talk trivialities with him . She felt , as she had felt ever since she had first seen his ...
... felt like a servant . " Staying here , are we ? " he said , beginning to screw his racquet into its press . Her heart sank . She did not want to talk trivialities with him . She felt , as she had felt ever since she had first seen his ...
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... felt about things --just ordinary things - all as if you'd known us- Robin , anyway — for years . Yet so strange . " She paused to think , as if conscious of giving the wrong impression . " You didn't write pages of description - Lord ...
... felt about things --just ordinary things - all as if you'd known us- Robin , anyway — for years . Yet so strange . " She paused to think , as if conscious of giving the wrong impression . " You didn't write pages of description - Lord ...
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