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 67
... walked to and fro across the sharp shadows on the deck , noticing how the deck and all the ropes had been drenched in sea - water and then whitened in the sun . It was incredible that she should be there at all . Walk- ing on the deck ...
... walked to and fro across the sharp shadows on the deck , noticing how the deck and all the ropes had been drenched in sea - water and then whitened in the sun . It was incredible that she should be there at all . Walk- ing on the deck ...
Page 98
... walked be- hind the other two , Katherine noticed that the shiny flowers threw a yellow reflection upwards to the shadows of their clothes , making it seem as if they walked in a kind of splendour . It was on the first day , too — or ...
... walked be- hind the other two , Katherine noticed that the shiny flowers threw a yellow reflection upwards to the shadows of their clothes , making it seem as if they walked in a kind of splendour . It was on the first day , too — or ...
Page 170
... walked slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of them had softly closed . From here she passed through into the kitchen - garden , where the air was richer with a confused smell of ...
... walked slowly along the path by the tennis - court , looking at the broad bed of flowers . Many of them had softly closed . From here she passed through into the kitchen - garden , where the air was richer with a confused smell of ...
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