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 156
... trying to forget her embarrassing be- haviour when she had been trying to coax him out into a non - existent open . That made her blush deeply , and was something she would never tell her friends . But what was she going to tell them ...
... trying to forget her embarrassing be- haviour when she had been trying to coax him out into a non - existent open . That made her blush deeply , and was something she would never tell her friends . But what was she going to tell them ...
Page 169
... trying to beat the whole crowd till he drops . Absolute rage incarnate . You can't call it courage ; it's more than that . " He studied the squashy end of his cigarette for a moment . " And you look down , you know . . . if he got you ...
... trying to beat the whole crowd till he drops . Absolute rage incarnate . You can't call it courage ; it's more than that . " He studied the squashy end of his cigarette for a moment . " And you look down , you know . . . if he got you ...
Page 197
... trying to harm her . It's just impossible to make her see reason , be- cause she doesn't know what she's saying or doing . Once I was ill for a week and we had a nurse in . We had to , you see . And she tried to give the nurse all sorts ...
... trying to harm her . It's just impossible to make her see reason , be- cause she doesn't know what she's saying or doing . Once I was ill for a week and we had a nurse in . We had to , you see . And she tried to give the nurse all sorts ...
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