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 94
... seemed simultaneously to lift up at them from the ground and to press down on their heads and shoulders . Robin appeared to straighten himself against it , looking round at the trees that ascended on all sides towards the sky . He looked ...
... seemed simultaneously to lift up at them from the ground and to press down on their heads and shoulders . Robin appeared to straighten himself against it , looking round at the trees that ascended on all sides towards the sky . He looked ...
Page 105
... looked round at the noise . " What she began . " Oh , glory . " She started to laugh , and once she had started seemed unable to stop . When she laughed , she resembled Robin much more and was , therefore , better - looking : the ...
... looked round at the noise . " What she began . " Oh , glory . " She started to laugh , and once she had started seemed unable to stop . When she laughed , she resembled Robin much more and was , therefore , better - looking : the ...
Page 193
... look as if she had ever been pretty , she still kept a gaucheness of manner that would have been suitable only in a very young girl . It made her laughable . Left alone , Katherine looked round . Sometimes , when her own attic depressed ...
... look as if she had ever been pretty , she still kept a gaucheness of manner that would have been suitable only in a very young girl . It made her laughable . Left alone , Katherine looked round . Sometimes , when her own attic depressed ...
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