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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... things , and because of them the town never seemed distant . Only infrequently did she see things that reminded her of landscape paintings — a row of cottages , a church on rising ground , the slant of a field - and she preferred in the ...
... things , and because of them the town never seemed distant . Only infrequently did she see things that reminded her of landscape paintings — a row of cottages , a church on rising ground , the slant of a field - and she preferred in the ...
Page 149
... things - all as if you'd known us- Robin , anyway — for years . Yet so strange . " She paused to think , as if ... thing to do , " she went on , speaking quicker as if to get out a discreditable confession , " was to get Robin to ask you ...
... things - all as if you'd known us- Robin , anyway — for years . Yet so strange . " She paused to think , as if ... thing to do , " she went on , speaking quicker as if to get out a discreditable confession , " was to get Robin to ask you ...
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... things , like that Daddy comes at nights and talks to her . I often hear her talking in the night . Of course , she means no harm , but it's not nice when there's no - one in the house . " Miss Parbury spoke in a reasonable , slightly ...
... things , like that Daddy comes at nights and talks to her . I often hear her talking in the night . Of course , she means no harm , but it's not nice when there's no - one in the house . " Miss Parbury spoke in a reasonable , slightly ...
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