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 84
... amusing as she could : gradually she was relieved to find the atmosphere becoming easier . Mr. Fennel smoked a cigarette ... amused eye on her son . " I shall have to look for them in my case , also , " said Katherine . She sped upstairs ...
... amusing as she could : gradually she was relieved to find the atmosphere becoming easier . Mr. Fennel smoked a cigarette ... amused eye on her son . " I shall have to look for them in my case , also , " said Katherine . She sped upstairs ...
Page 104
... amused , because I shall be bored stiff . " But no doubt he did make the request in more equivocal language ; Katherine felt sure there was another side to Robin's nature that might prompt such an appeal . And Jane had listlessly agreed ...
... amused , because I shall be bored stiff . " But no doubt he did make the request in more equivocal language ; Katherine felt sure there was another side to Robin's nature that might prompt such an appeal . And Jane had listlessly agreed ...
Page 164
... amused her after that to pose as a person trapped and misunderstood . Now all that was over , and there was someone else to show off to , she had changed once more . Her emotions , thought Katherine , are as flexible as Robin's manners ...
... amused her after that to pose as a person trapped and misunderstood . Now all that was over , and there was someone else to show off to , she had changed once more . Her emotions , thought Katherine , are as flexible as Robin's manners ...
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