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 47
... shut the door . Miss Green took less kindly to this room than to the last . She stood by the chair , lifting her hands and dropping them ; when he gestured that she should sit down , she balanced on the edge of the seat , and had to ...
... shut the door . Miss Green took less kindly to this room than to the last . She stood by the chair , lifting her hands and dropping them ; when he gestured that she should sit down , she balanced on the edge of the seat , and had to ...
Page 182
... shut out the past , but it shut out the future too , and made the present one long temporary hand - to - mouth existence . All the time she had been behaving as if everything would suddenly snap back to normal , if she could only hang ...
... shut out the past , but it shut out the future too , and made the present one long temporary hand - to - mouth existence . All the time she had been behaving as if everything would suddenly snap back to normal , if she could only hang ...
Page 210
... shut up with your advice , shut up . I don't want it , you bore me stiff with such things . " She drew a deep breath to stop herself panting . " Keep it . Keep it for your Miss Greens and Miss Feathers and your silly Veronica Parbury ...
... shut up with your advice , shut up . I don't want it , you bore me stiff with such things . " She drew a deep breath to stop herself panting . " Keep it . Keep it for your Miss Greens and Miss Feathers and your silly Veronica Parbury ...
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