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 21
... - dered . She stood waiting in the entrance - hall of the library , three minutes later , as she had been bidden . This was a dim , unheated place , with double swing - doors leading out 大 into the street : two sets of glass doors 21.
... - dered . She stood waiting in the entrance - hall of the library , three minutes later , as she had been bidden . This was a dim , unheated place , with double swing - doors leading out 大 into the street : two sets of glass doors 21.
Page 23
... waiting anxiously for a reply . And it had come - not from Jane , which was under- standable in the circumstances , but from Mrs. Fennel , written on the same notepaper that Robin had used , with the house and the village and the ...
... waiting anxiously for a reply . And it had come - not from Jane , which was under- standable in the circumstances , but from Mrs. Fennel , written on the same notepaper that Robin had used , with the house and the village and the ...
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... there were no fires in waiting - rooms . Paper - sellers with the three o'clock edition stood well within the locked entrances of banks . The papers said nothing about the weather , but gave lists of football matches and race- 177 I.
... there were no fires in waiting - rooms . Paper - sellers with the three o'clock edition stood well within the locked entrances of banks . The papers said nothing about the weather , but gave lists of football matches and race- 177 I.
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