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 56
... knew . " " Well , don't you know them any more ? " " I suppose I do , " Katherine admitted . She moved her head as if her neck hurt her . " Do they live round here ? " " No , in Oxfordshire . " " My grandfather lived there , " said Miss ...
... knew . " " Well , don't you know them any more ? " " I suppose I do , " Katherine admitted . She moved her head as if her neck hurt her . " Do they live round here ? " " No , in Oxfordshire . " " My grandfather lived there , " said Miss ...
Page 183
... knew , now , that in most lives there had to come a break , when the past dropped away and the maturity it had enclosed for so long stood painfully upright . It came through death or disaster , or even through a love- affair that with ...
... knew , now , that in most lives there had to come a break , when the past dropped away and the maturity it had enclosed for so long stood painfully upright . It came through death or disaster , or even through a love- affair that with ...
Page 246
... knew he would be , and later on he began to talk again . " You will write to me , won't you ? I mean , I'can rely on it ? " " Yes , of course , if you want me to . " " I'd be glad so if you would . I don't get many letters . From home ...
... knew he would be , and later on he began to talk again . " You will write to me , won't you ? I mean , I'can rely on it ? " " Yes , of course , if you want me to . " " I'd be glad so if you would . I don't get many letters . From home ...
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